[rglullis]

Brazil is a top 10 economy only because of its population size. Per capita, it sits smack in the middle of the table and is behind "poor" countries from Eastern Europe and the Caribean.

Due to its inequality, I'd venture that a chart compared median income levels would put us below most African countries. Brazil can be an amazing place to live if you are already wealthy (and if you are willing to live surrounded by private security and completely removed from the reality of the population at large), but no one in their right mind would risk trading their lives with that of the median Brazilian.