Brazil: three middle classes

Brazil is a country of the middle class. Six out of every ten Brazilians 16 or older already belong to this group, according to Datafolha. With 90 million people, a number larger than the population of Germany, the Brazilian middle class, however, is far from being homogeneous. The variety of indicators for income, education and ownership of consumer goods allows the division of this portion of the population into three distinct groups that separate the rich from the excluded. The growing access to comfort goods, like electronics, computers and automobiles, is what brings the three spheres of the Brazilian middle class closest together. Read Article