Side by side

Brazil and United States compared

Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.

🇧🇷Brazil

7 September 1822Pedro of Braganza declares independence beside the Ipiranga brook

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🇺🇸United States

4 July 1776The Second Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence

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Shared indicators
47
Domains
9
Crossed events
1
Data through
2026-08-10

The figures, side by side

Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.

Entangled histories

One event in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

  1. 1891 CE

    First republican constitution

    The Constitution of 1891 establishes a federal republic with strong states, modelled in part on the United States.

    Politics & Power · from the Brazil chronicle · The Old Republic · Brazil