Brazil: Legal Amazon as share of GDP 2002-2016, by sector
Legal Amazon is a special region of Brazil comprising the territory of nine Brazilian states where the Amazon rainforest is located. It was estimated that this region accounted for 8.6 percent of Brazil's total Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2016, having increased from a share of 6.9 percent in 2002. The sector with the highest contribution was agriculture, to which the Legal Amazon represented 21 percent in terms of GDP in 2016.
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