Brazil is a much larger country and also much more diverse. We have wildly different regions with wildly different histories.
The São Paulo state, for example, has an area comparable to the UK and a HDI of roughly 0.83, which is roughly on par with the other South American countries.
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Brazil is a much larger country and also much more diverse. We have wildly different regions with wildly different histories.
The São Paulo state, for example, has an area comparable to the UK and a HDI of roughly 0.83, which is roughly on par with the other South American countries.