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> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	52.04 %		[4th of 38]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	66.91 %		[3rd of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights	39.61 %		[10th of 39]
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation > Broadcast details > Alternate title/Translation CSI - Investigação Criminal ("CSI - Criminal Investigation")
Illicit drugs second-largest consumer of cocaine in the world; illicit producer of cannabis; trace amounts of coca cultivation in the Amazon region, used for domestic consumption; government has a large-scale eradication program to control cannabis; important transshipment country for Bolivian, Colombian, and Peruvian cocaine headed for Europe; also used by traffickers as a way station for narcotics air transshipments between Peru and Colombia; upsurge in drug-related violence and weapons smuggling; important market for Colombian, Bolivian, and Peruvian cocaine; illicit narcotics proceeds earned in Brazil are often laundered through the financial system; significant illicit financial activity in the Tri-Border Area
Murders committed by youths	20,386		[1st of 73]
Murders committed by youths per capita	32.5		[4th of 57]
Prisoners	308,304 prisoners		[5th of 168]
Prisoners > Female	4.1%		[69th of 134]
Prisoners > Foreign prisoners	0.4%		[80th of 86]
Prisoners > Per capita	169 per 100,000 people		[50th of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees	28.1%		[81st of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled	133.8%		[49th of 128]
Software piracy rate	59%		[58th of 107]
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation Brazil is a source and destination country for women and girls trafficked for sexual exploitation within Brazil and to destinations in South America, the Caribbean, Western Europe, Japan, the US, and the Middle East, and for men trafficked within the country for forced agricultural labor; child sex tourism is a problem within the country, particularly in the resort areas and coastal cities of Brazil's northeast; foreign victims from Bolivia, Peru, China, and Korea are trafficked to Brazil for labor exploitation in factories
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating Tier 2 Watch List - Brazil has failed to show evidence of increasing efforts to fight trafficking, specifically for its failure to apply effective criminal penalties against traffickers who exploit forced labor
United States extradition treaties > Citation 15 UST 2093; TIAS 5691; 532 UNTS 177. 15 UST 2112; TIAS 5691; 532 UNTS 198.
United States extradition treaties > Date signed January 13, 1961 June 18, 1962
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force December 17, 1964 December 17, 1964
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines	29.9		[29th of 143]

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