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Economy & Business - October 2003

BRAZIL: Looking better, but unemployment and FDI disappoint

Brazil has overtaken Mexico as the Latin American country with the largest number of industrial robots. Brazil had 4,000 industrial robots at the end of 2002. The bulk of them are in the motor industry. Brazil accounts for 90% of all robots in South America, according to figures from the United Nations' Commission for Europe. Brazil now has about as many robots as Mexico, but far fewer than Japan, which has 350,000, or Germany, which has 105,000. The UN reckons that there are about 770,000 industrial robots in the world. In 2002, 420 robots were installed in Brazil. This was down slightly on 2001 when 450 were installed.

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