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"I'd like a computer to help me do my homework."
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| Rosamaria lives in Rocinha, a favela, or slum, near the location of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Jeneiro. She shares a two-room shack with her mother (a chambermaid) and three siblings. Many of the 200,000 people who live in Rocinha, and in Brazil's other urban slums, are poor farmers, whose inferior hinterland farms cannot compete with industrial agriculture. (In Brazil, just one percent of the population owns 46 percent of the arable land.) In Rocinha, Rosamaria faces pollution, crime and poverty. Still, the slums do offer community, and hope for a better future. |
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| Gross National Income Rank (of 207, 1999) |
73rd |
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| GNI per Capita (USD, 1999) |
$4,350 |
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| Percentage of Pop. Under 14 Years (2000, est.) |
29% |
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| Life Expectancy at Birth (in years, 1999) |
67 |
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| Infant Mortality (per 1,000 live births, 1999) |
32 |
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| Child Malnutrition (% underweight, 1999) |
6% |
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| Access to Improved Water (% pop., 1999) |
87% |
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| Health Spending (% of GDP, 1997) |
6.5% |
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| Ratio, Doctors to People (1996) |
1:844 (1993) |
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Primary School Enrollment
(average for region, 1998) |
94% |
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| Female Net School Enrollment (1997) |
No data |
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| Education Spending (% of GDP, 1996) |
5.2% |
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| Compulsory Education |
8 yrs |
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| Literacy Rate (2000, est.) |
85% |
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Data Sources: World Bank Atlas 2001, Facts on File
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