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Chart of the Week: Brazil's $580 million mobile gaming market

SuperData breaks out the potential

Chart of the Week: Brazil's $580 million mobile gaming market

There's no question that there are a lot of large, emerging markets for mobile games.

Recently, we considered China's in a world context, and then we went on to ponder the potential of India, Indonesia and Thailand.

But what about the world's fifth largest population, a founding member of the so-called BRICS - Brazil?

Samba beat

According to information from research company SuperData, the Brazilian games market in 2012 was worth $1 billion, which is estimated to rise to $1.4 billion in 2013.

Significantly, it reckons mobile gaming is the biggest sector; accounting for as much as 42 percent of revenue - $580 million in 2013.

SuperData also predicts there are around 115 million monthly active mobile gamers; that's out of a population of 200 million.

You can see more of its Brazillian numbers here.

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