List of Brazilian states by Gross Domestic Product

Brazil produced, in 2012, a gross domestic product (GDP) of R$ 4.403.000 million or US$ 2.223.737 million in nominal terms, ranking 7th worldwide, and US$ 2.223.737 million in Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) terms, ranking 6th worldwide, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGEF) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In that year, the Brazilian economy grew 1.9% in real terms according to revised figures of the IBGE. The per capita accounts of the GDP were of R$ 22,813.47 or US$ 11.521,95 in nominal terms, and US$ 11.521,95 in PPP terms. The Brazilian population, in 2012, was of 193,300,291, ranking 5th worldwide and totaling 2.84% of the world's population.

Brazil is formed by the union of 27 Units of the Federation—26 States and the Federal District, which contains the capital city, Brasília. Of these, seven states; São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Rio Grande do Sul, Paraná, Bahia and Santa Catarina; with the Federal District, concentrate almost 80% of the national economy. São Paulo is the richest and most populous state of Brazil, ranking 16th and 27th worldwide, respectively; Rio de Janeiro is the second richest and the third most populous state, ranking 65th and 59th worldwide; and Minas Gerais is the third richest and the second most populous state, ranking 80th and 55th worldwide. Piauí has the lowest GDP per capita at the same time that the Federal District has the highest. Amapá, Acre and Roraima are the poorest states in the country with 0,59% of the national GDP.

Listings

The listings are based on data from the 2007 Regional Accounts Report, published by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), in partnership with the State Bodies of Statistics, State Departments of Government and the Superintendency of the Manaus Free Zone (SUFRAMA). Information is compiled from statistics on the annual value of production, intermediate consumption and added value of each economic activity, as well as indicators of growth in the volume of annual production and the annual index of prices of goods and services produced and the main inputs consumed. The methodology and database of the Report is completely integrated to the series of National Accounts, which has as initial reference the year 2003, with results consistent with the National Classification of Economic Activities (CNAE).

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List of Brazilian federative units and major regions according to nominal terms of GDP and GDP per capita, in both national (Brazilian real) and foreign (United States dollar) currency under current prices, along with their share of the national GDP and their country-level equivalents
Federative unit # GDP
in BRL million 		GDP
in USD million 		Share Comparable
country 		# GDP Per capita
in BRL 		GDP Per capita
in USD 		Comparable
country
Southeast region [†] — 2,088,221 1,186,950 55.4%  Australia — 25,987 14,772  Barbados
 São Paulo 1 1,247,596 709,137 33.1%  Indonesia 2 30,243 17,190  Saudi Arabia
South region [†] — 622,255 353,691 16.5%  South Africa — 22,722 12,916  Hungary
Northeast region [†] — 507,502 288,465 13.5%  Colombia — 9,561 5,435  Namibia
Rio de Janeiro 2 407,123 231,410 10.8%  Portugal 3 25,455 14,469  Estonia
 Minas Gerais 3 351,381 199,726 9.3%  Philippines 9 17,931 10,193  Venezuela
Central-West region [†] — 350,596 199,280 9.3%  Philippines — 24,952 14,183  Estonia
 Rio Grande do Sul 4 252,483 143,512 6.7%  New Zealand 5 23,606 13,418  Croatia
 Paraná 5 217,290 123,508 5.8%  Qatar 7 20,813 11,831  Uruguay
North region [†] — 201,511 114,539 5.3%  Kuwait — 12,701 7,219  South Africa
 Bahia 6 154,340 87,727 4.1%  Slovakia 19 11,007 6,257  Colombia
Santa Catarina 7 152,482 86,671 4.0%  Slovakia 4 24,398 13,868  Estonia
8 149,906 85,207 4.0%  Iraq 1 58,489 33,246  Kuwait
 Goiás 9 97,576 55,462 2.6%  Belarus 12 16,251 9,238  Mexico
 Pernambuco 10 95,187 54,105 2.5%  Luxembourg 20 10,821 6,151  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
 Espírito Santo 11 82,122 46,678 2.2%  Slovenia 6 23,378 13,289  Croatia
 Ceará 12 77,865 44,259 2.1%  Tunisia 23 9,216 5,239  Namibia
 Pará 13 77,848 44,249 2.1%  Tunisia 21 10,259 5,831  Belarus
 Amazonas 14 59,779 33,979 1.6%  Ghana 11 17,173 9,761  Lebanon
 Mato Grosso 15 59,600 33,877 1.6%  Ghana 8 19,644 11,166  Lithuania
 Maranhão 16 45,256 25,724 1.2%  Jordan 27 6,888 3,915  Guyana
 Mato Grosso do Sul 17 43,514 24,733 1.2%  Latvia 10 17,765 10,098  Turkey
 Rio Grande do Norte 18 32,339 18,382 0.9%  Estonia 22 10,207 5,802  Belarus
 Paraíba 19 31,947 18,159 0.8%  Estonia 24 8,481 4,821  Jamaica
 Alagoas 20 24,575 13,968 0.7%  Equatorial Guinea 25 7,874 4,476  China
 Sergipe 21 23,932 13,603 0.6%  Jamaica 17 11,572 6,578  Maldives
 Rondônia 22 23,561 13,392 0.6%  Jamaica 13 15,098 8,582  Malaysia
 Piauí 23 22,060 12,539 0.6%  Iceland 26 7,072 4,020  Turkmenistan
 Tocantins 24 17,240 9,799 0.5%  Papua New Guinea 15 12,461 7,083  South Africa
 Acre 25 8,477 4,818 0.2%  Kyrgyzstan 18 11,567 6,575  Maldives
 Amapá 26 8,266 4,698 0.2%  Kyrgyzstan 16 12,361 7,026  Dominica
 Roraima 27 6,341 3,604 0.2%  Mauritania 14 14,051 7,987  Costa Rica
Total — 3,770,085 2,142,926 100%  Brazil — 19,766 11,235  Brazil

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Note

  • Annual average exchange rates: GDP (in US$ 1,638,639 mil., It is estimated that average exchange rate is R$ 1.8338 per US$ in 2008; GDP 2005 of Brazil is R$ 2,147,239 mil. or US$ 882,044 mil., average exchange rate is R$ 2.4344 per us$.

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