Home to 205m people, according to the CIA World Factbook, Brazil is riding a decade-long economic wave of growth. The country’s economy grew 7.5% in 2010 and 3.5% in 2011, overtaking the UK, according to The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR). By 2015, the International Monetary Fund predicts that its economy will be the fifth largest in the world, ahead of those of France and Germany.