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Inequality in Brazil

Causes

  • The big landowners have got richer and richer but workers have not
  • Millions of rural families have no land of their own and are forced to work for big landowners
  • 1% of Brazil's population owns 50% of Brazil's land

Effects

  • 25 million people in Brazil live in extreme poverty
  • In Brazil, around 1.4 million children aged under 15 work for a livng
  • Life expectancy in Brazil is 73 whereas in the UK it it 80

Overall summary

Brazil's society is so unequal because big landowners are very rich and poor people are forced to work for them. This causes people living in poverty, young children forced to work, and a lower life expectancy

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