Universidade FederaldeMinasGerais

Brazil infigures:generalaspects,
higher education,and R&D
Cllio CampolinaDiniz
Rector of UniversidadeFederaldeMinasGerais
Email:reitor@ufmg.br

Summaryofthispresentation

Localization
GeneralaspectsofBrazil
Population/GDP/Export
Educationalsystem
Researchanddevelopment

BrazilinaEuroCentricMap

BrazilinaAsiaCentricMap

SouthAmerica Brazilinhighlight

BrazilandChina

BrazilandChina

BrazilandChina

BrazilandChina

BrazilandChina

BrazilandChina

BrazilandChina

Generalinformation:area,GDP,
population,andexports,2010
Continentsand
SelectedCountrys
Africa
A.doNorte
USA
A.LatinaeCaribe
Brazil
Asia
China
Japan
SouthKorea
India
Oceania
UE27
Germany
Europeothers
World

Area(tho.km )
30047
20227
9832
20423
8515
31959
9600
378
100
3287
8561
4255
357
18743
134215

Fonte:Elaboraoprpriaapartirdosdadosdo
www.worldbank.orgWorldBankDatabase.
*Emvalorescorrentes.

%
22,4
15,1
7,3
15,2
6,3
23,8
7,2
0,3
0,1
2,4
6,4
3,2
0,3
14,0
100,0

GDP(US$Tri.)*
1,6
16,2
14,6
4,9
2,1
18,7
5,9
5,5
1,0
1,7
0,0
16,2
3,3
2,8
60,4

%
2,7
26,7
24,1
8,2
3,5
31,0
9,8
9,0
1,7
2,9
0,0
26,8
5,4
4,6
100,0

Population
(milionsinhab.)
1029
343
309
589
195
4085
1338
127
49
1171
37
499
82
240
6821

%
15,1
5,0
4,5
8,6
2,9
59,9
19,6
1,9
0,7
17,2
0,5
7,3
1,2
3,5
100,0

Exports(US$
Tri.)*
0,4
2,3
1,8
1,0
0,2
6,2
1,8
0,8
0,5
0,4
0,0
6,5
1,5
1,1
17,6

%
2,5
13,1
10,5
5,8
1,3
35,2
10,0
4,7
3,0
2,1
0,0
37,2
8,7
6,1
100,0

Brazil:Populationdensity,2010(pop/km2)

Brazil:urbannetworkwithmorethan50
thousandinhabitants,2010

Mainindustrialpoles withmorethan5thousand
industrialjobs

Geographical,
culturaland
economicdiversity

SoPaulo Brazils
mainmetropolitan
area respondsfor
25%ofBrazilianGDP;
10%ofpopulation

Rain Florest
Amazonia

RiodeJaneiro
Carnaval

Economiccharacteristics

Agriculture(soybeans,rice,beans,suggar cane,
coffee,cattle,pork,andothers)
Industries metalwork,carsandcomponents,
aircrafts,biotechnology,biofuel,petroleum,mining
Services

Economiccharacteristics

Brazilisworldwideleadershipon
Deepwaterpetroleumexploration
Mining
CivilAeronauticsIndustry
BankingAutomation
Biofuels
Automationoftheelectoralprocess(electronic
voting)

Brazilianhigheducationsystem
Systemisbothpublicandprivate
Majorchangesinthelast20years:growthinthe
numberofinstitutions,students,andfunding
MajorUniversitiesarepublic USP,Unicamp,UFMG,
UFRJ,UFRGS
Theundergraduateishighlydonebytheprivate
institutions(numberofgraduatestudents).
Thegraduateprograms(masteranddoctoral)are
concentratedinthepublicinstitutions R&Dare
alsoconcentratedinpublicinstitutions.

SomenumbersofBrazilianhigheducation
systemin2010

#of
Typeofinstituion
institucions
Public*
Private
Total
*(Federal, State and County)

% #Teachers

278 12
2.100 88
2.378 100

140.742
226.140
366.882

#
% Undergraduate
courses
38
8.821
62
19.756
100
28.577

%
31
69
100

#of
graduate

178.407 22
650.879 78
829.286 100

Evolutionofenrollmentinundergraduate
programsduringthelast20years

Postgraduate programs and R&D

Thenumberofpostgraduateprograms(Masters
andDoctoral)hasdoubledinthelastdecade
Todaythereareabout3,000programs,morethan
halfonlyinfederalinstitutions
Thenumberofmastersanddoctoratesdegrees
assignedhasalsodoubledinthelastdecade
Itincreasedfrom26,000to53,000peryear
12,000doctorsdegreesand41,000mastersdegrees
wereassignedin2010
Theseresultsrepresentmorethanthedoubleofthe
sumofalltheotherLatinAmericascountries
Fundinghasincreasedinlast20years(CAPES,CNPq,
FINEPandothers)

Postgraduate programs and R&D

2.7% of all scientific papers

published worldwide;
13th place worldwide in

number of publications;
Brazil is the Latin Americas

top publisher on science and

technology

Postgraduate programs and R&D

Brazil in numbers
9th place worldwide in

R&D funding per

researcher.

PublicexpenditureineducationandGERD
acomparativetable
Brasil
USA
China
Japan
Germany
India
SouthKorea
Fonte: UNESCO.

Country/expenditure/year
Publicexpenditureineducation(%ofGDP)
GERD(%ofGDP)
Publicexpenditureineducation(%ofGDP)
GERD(%ofGDP)
Publicexpenditureineducation(%ofGDP)
GERD(%ofGDP)
Publicexpenditureineducation(%ofGDP)
GERD(%ofGDP)
Publicexpenditureineducation(%ofGDP)
GERD(%ofGDP)
Publicexpenditureineducation(%ofGDP)
GERD(%ofGDP)
Publicexpenditureineducation(%ofGDP)
GERD(%ofGDP)

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

4,5
5,0
5,1
5,4
1,0
1,0
1,1
1,1
5,3
5,6
5,5
5,5
2,6
2,6
2,7
2,8
1,3
3,5
3,3
2,5
3,1
0,8
...
2,3

1,4
1,4
3,5
3,5
3,4
3,4
4,4
4,5
2,5
2,5
3,1 ...
0,8
0,8
4,1
4,2
2,8
3,0

1,5
3,4
3,4
4,6
2,7

2,8

4,2
3,2

4,8
3,4

3,8

Universityranking

AlltopuniversitiesinBrazilarepublicinstitutions
Brazilhastwouniversitiesbetweenthe300best
worldwideuniversitiesontheTimesHigherEducation
ranking
Fiveuniversitiesbetweenthe500bestworldwide
universitiesontheShanghaiJiaoTongUniversity
ranking,UFMGisoneofthem
Andthreeuniversitiesbetweenthetop10inLatin
AmericaontheQSranking,UFMGisoneofthem

Universityranking

www.topuniversities.com/universityrankings/latinamericanuniversityrankings/2011

FederalUniversityofMinasGerais

Thankyou!
Cllio Campolina Diniz
RectorofUniversidade FederaldeMinas
Gerais
Email:reitor@ufmg.br