1.6% 2.4 19% 103% 2.6% 96% 65% 66Th 3.8 1.8 $36175 $2.4

1.6% 2.4 19% 103% 2.6% 96% 65% 66Th 3.8 1.8 $36175 $2.4

Brasília metropolitan area profile Global Cities Initiative Overview (rank among 13 Brazilian metros) BRAZIL State of Population, 2012 Employment, 2010 GDP per capita, 2012 Exports in billions, ÁGUA FRIA DE GOIÁS Goiás BALDIM MIMOSO DE GOIÁS VILA BOA State of in millions in millions 2007-2012 FUNILÂNDIA Minas Gerais SETE LAGOAS PLANALTINA JABOTICATUBAS PRUDENTE FORMOSA PADRE BERNARDO DE MORAIS th th st th MATOZINHOS BURITIS (5 ) (5 ) (1 ) (13 ) INHAÚMA CAPIM 3.8 1.8 $36,175 $2.4 FORTUNA DE BRANCO TAQUARAÇU MINAS LAGOA DE MINAS COCALZINHO PEDRO CONFINS SANTA DE GOIÁS ÁGUAS LEOPOLDO NOVA SÃO JOSÉ LINDAS DISTRITOSÃO JOSÉ UNIÃO DE GOIÁS PIRENÓPOLIS DA VARGINHA ESMERALDAS DA LAPA CABECEIRAS Economic performance, 2011-2012 CORUMBÁ FEDERAL VESPASIANO SANTA RIBEIRÃO DAS LUZIA DE GOIÁS NEVES BARÃO PARÁ DE MINAS DE COCAIS VALPARAÍSO CIDADE CAETÉ Rank among 13 Brazilian metros: Rank among 300 world metros: ALEXÂNIAFLORESTAL NOVO DE GOIÁS OCIDENTAL MONGAGUÁ GAMA CONTAGEM BELO ABADIÂNIA BETIM HORIZONTE SANTO ANTÔNIO JUATUBADO DESCOBERTO RAPOSOS st th IBIRITÉ UNAÍ IGARAPÉ SÃOLUZIÂNIA MÁRIO 66 JOAQUIM SARZEDO NOVA LIMA 1 CAMPOS DE BICAS Goiânia RIO ACIMA BRUMADINHO BRASÍLIA BRAZIL Metropolitan CRISTALINA Top employment sectors, 2012 Area ITABIRITO JOB SHARE JOB CHANGE, 2011-2012 MOEDA Municipality Population, 2010 250,001 - 500,000 Public services Public services Less than 50,000 500,001 - 1,000,000 Miles 50,000 - 250,000 More than 1,000,000 0 10 20 30 40 26 4.3 Business services Business services 2010 metro share of 20 2.0 Distribution/retail Distribution/retail 1.9 5.8 2.6 20 National National Other services Other services population GDP 7 1.1 0 % 10 20 30 -1 0 % 1 2 3 4 5 Key statistics (national values) Population Migration Education GDP per capita Employment Change, 1990-2012: Share born outside the state: Share with a college degree: Change, 1990-2012: Change, 1990-2012: 68% (34%) - (14%) 19% (11%) 34% (42%) 103% (37%) Working age share of total: Emigrants per 1,000 residents: Literacy rate: Change, 2011-2012: Change, 2011-2012: 65% (63%) 2.4 (2.6) 96% (91%) 1.6% (0.5%) 2.6% (1.4%) Brasília metropolitan area profile Global Cities Initiative OVERVIEW Because of its brief history, Brasília is by definition a destina- also expanding its presence in the information technology field tion for migrants. Many came from poor areas of Northeastern with plans for a major digital technology park and expansion of Located on the central plateau, the national capital city of Brazil to help build the city in the late 1950s and stayed. wireless broadband internet to the entire country before 2014. Brasília was created in 1960 from land in the state of Goiás Later, it attracted residents from Rio de Janeiro (the former near the border with Minas Gerais. The metropolitan area’s capital) and other major metropolitan areas to work in the Twenty-six (26) percent of Brasília’s workers are employed in population is now the fifth largest in Brazil. Yet its GDP ranks federal government located there. Its more than 100 public services (compared to 15 percent nationally), 20 third, behind the much larger metro areas of São Paulo and embassies draw foreigners to work in Brasília, but the share of percent in business services (11 percent nationally), and 20 Rio de Janeiro. Known for its distinctive architecture and city its population that is foreign born equals the national rate of percent in distribution and retail (19 percent nationally). plan, its founding has led to the growth and development of 0.3 percent. Emigration is relatively low, with 2.4 emigrants Brasília is seeing high growth rates in most of its service the Brazilian interior. per 1,000 residents in 2010 ranking Brasília 10th among sectors. Based on 2012 Gross Value Added (GVA), the Brazil’s large metro areas. The United States is the top metropolitan area specializes in public services, which POPULATION destination for these emigrants (27 percent), followed by accounts for 52 percent of its economy compared to 17 Spain (10 percent) and Portugal (8 percent). percent nationally. Home to 3.8 million residents, metropolitan Brasília is approximately the same size as the Seattle region. Sixty-nine ECONOMY With Brasília’s focus on the public sector and services, it is not (69) percent of its inhabitants live in the Federal District itself, surprising that the region is the nation’s smallest exporter of with the remaining population residing in 21 surrounding Brasília is the strongest performing Brazilian metropolitan area merchandise goods. Over the last five years, Brasília municipalities. The share of its population living in favelas economically, ranking 66th among the world’s 300 largest exported only $2.4 billion of goods, less than 1 percent of (irregular settlements), is the lowest among major metro areas metro economies in 2011–2012.2 Its 1.8 million employees which reached the United States. Forty-two (42) percent of (3.7 percent). place the region fifth among Brazilian metro areas, but its Brasília’s exports during that time went to China. Almost employed population has doubled since 1990, and it had the three-quarters of the region’s exports are oil seeds, grains, Brasília is a young metro area, and its population has grown second largest growth rate in the last year (2.6 percent). and fruits, followed by cereals (15 percent) and food industry very quickly. In the first decade after its founding, its population waste (7 percent). more than quadrupled. In recent decades, its growth has been Brasília’s GDP is $139 billion, third after São Paulo and Rio de double the national rate (30 percent in both the 1990s and Janeiro. It has grown 125 percent since 1990, second only to 2000–2012) and surpassed only by metropolitan Manaus. Manaus, and its 3.1 percent growth since 2011 is the highest Children make up 31 percent of the metro area’s population, in Brazil. Brasília enjoys the nation’s highest GDP per capita: compared to 27 percent among all large metro areas. Among at $36,175, it is nearly three times the Brazilian average. Its large metro areas, only Manaus has a younger age structure GDP per capita growth since 1990 is lower than the national than Brasília. average, reflecting its relatively high initial value. Brasília boasts the highest share of its population with a As the seat of all three branches of the federal government, tertiary education, 19 percent of those aged 25 and older. At the public sector dominates the region’s economy. Brasília is the same time, its literacy rate of 96 percent (among those age home to some of the nation’s largest public agencies and ten and above) places it eighth among large Brazilian firms, including Brasil Telecom, Itaipu (hydroelectric power), metropolitan areas. the Brazilian post office, and Banco do Brasil. The region is .

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