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Carnival

Brazil did not invent Carnival, but it took it far too seriously. The index acknowledges the effort with a middling score.

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Jabuticaba Index®

38%

Plausibility range: 38%

Evidence grade. Computed from source types: from A (official and academic data) to D (editorial judgment). It does not change the index.

01What exactly is being measured

Popular street festival in the period before Lent.

02Context

The festival exists in over a hundred countries ^[1]. None of them, however, stops for a week ^[2].

03Where else it exists

SovereignColonial

Local presence(Marginal → Widespread)
Exported from Brazil(Marginal → Widespread)
Brazil
Absent (checked)
No data

Equal Earth projection. Places with uncertain presence take the color of the highest possible level; the table shows the full range.

Place (106)

Place	Presence	Weight	Sources
Afghanistan	Widespread	1	[1]
Finland (Åland Islands)	Widespread	1	[1]
Albania	Widespread	1	[1]
Algeria	Widespread	1	[1]
United States (American Samoa)	Widespread	1	[1]
Andorra	Widespread	1	[1]
Angola	Widespread	1	[1]
United Kingdom (Anguilla)	Widespread	1	[1]
Antarctica	Widespread	1	[1]
Antigua & Barbuda	Widespread	1	[1]
Argentina	Widespread	1	[1]
Armenia	Widespread	1	[1]
Netherlands (Aruba)	Widespread	1	[1]
Australia	Widespread	1	[1]
Austria	Widespread	1	[1]
Azerbaijan	Widespread	1	[1]
Bahamas	Widespread	1	[1]
Bahrain	Widespread	1	[1]
Bangladesh	Widespread	1	[1]
Barbados	Widespread	1	[1]
Belarus	Widespread	1	[1]
Belgium	Widespread	1	[1]
Belize	Widespread	1	[1]
Benin	Widespread	1	[1]
United Kingdom (Bermuda)	Widespread	1	[1]
Bhutan	Widespread	1	[1]
Bolivia	Widespread	1	[1]
Bosnia & Herzegovina	Widespread	1	[1]
Botswana	Widespread	1	[1]
British Indian Ocean Territory	Widespread	1	[1]
Brunei	Widespread	1	[1]
Bulgaria	Widespread	1	[1]
Burkina Faso	Widespread	1	[1]
Burundi	Widespread	1	[1]
Cameroon	Widespread	1	[1]
Canada	Widespread	1	[1]
Cape Verde	Widespread	1	[1]
Netherlands (Caribbean Netherlands)	Widespread	1	[1]
Central African Republic	Widespread	1	[1]
Chile	Widespread	1	[1]
China	Widespread	1	[1]
Colombia	Widespread	1	[1]
Congo - Brazzaville	Widespread	1	[1]
Congo - Kinshasa	Widespread	1	[1]
Cook Islands	Widespread	1	[1]
Costa Rica	Widespread	1	[1]
Côte d’Ivoire	Widespread	1	[1]
Croatia	Widespread	1	[1]
Cuba	Widespread	1	[1]
Netherlands (Curaçao)	Widespread	1	[1]
Cyprus	Widespread	1	[1]
Czechia	Widespread	1	[1]
Denmark	Widespread	1	[1]
Djibouti	Widespread	1	[1]
Dominica	Widespread	1	[1]
Dominican Republic	Widespread	1	[1]
Ecuador	Widespread	1	[1]
Egypt	Widespread	1	[1]
Equatorial Guinea	Widespread	1	[1]
Eritrea	Widespread	1	[1]
Estonia	Widespread	1	[1]
Ethiopia	Widespread	1	[1]
United Kingdom (Falkland Islands)	Widespread	1	[1]
Denmark (Faroe Islands)	Widespread	1	[1]
Fiji	Widespread	1	[1]
Finland	Widespread	1	[1]
France	Widespread	1	[1]
France (French Guiana)	Widespread	1	[1]
Gabon	Widespread	1	[1]
Gambia	Widespread	1	[1]
Georgia	Widespread	1	[1]
Germany	Widespread	1	[1]
Ghana	Widespread	1	[1]
Greece	Widespread	1	[1]
Denmark (Greenland)	Widespread	1	[1]
Grenada	Widespread	1	[1]
France (Guadeloupe)	Widespread	1	[1]
United States (Guam)	Widespread	1	[1]
Guatemala	Widespread	1	[1]
United Kingdom (Guernsey)	Widespread	1	[1]
Guinea	Widespread	1	[1]
Guinea-Bissau	Widespread	1	[1]
Guyana	Widespread	1	[1]
Haiti	Widespread	1	[1]
Australia (Heard & McDonald Islands)	Widespread	1	[1]
Honduras	Widespread	1	[1]
China (Hong Kong SAR China)	Widespread	1	[1]
Hungary	Widespread	1	[1]
Iceland	Widespread	1	[1]
India	Widespread	1	[1]
Indonesia	Widespread	1	[1]
Iran	Widespread	1	[1]
Iraq	Widespread	1	[1]
Ireland	Widespread	1	[1]
United Kingdom (Isle of Man)	Widespread	1	[1]
Israel	Widespread	1	[1]
Italy	Widespread	1	[1]
United Kingdom (Jersey)	Widespread	1	[1]
Micronesia	Widespread	1	[1]
United Kingdom (South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands)	Widespread	1	[1]
Spain	Widespread	1	[1]
France (St. Barthélemy)	Widespread	1	[1]
Switzerland	Widespread	1	[1]
United Arab Emirates	Widespread	1	[1]
United Kingdom	Widespread	1	[1]
Western Sahara	Widespread	1	[1]
Presence abroad		106

04How we got this number

Presence abroad Sum of each place's weight: widespread = 1, regional = 0.5, marginal = 0.1. Where it only exists as a Brazilian export, the weight is multiplied by 0.5.: 106
Exclusivity E From 0 (exists everywhere) to 1 (only in Brazil), on a log scale.: 0
Intensity I How much more common it is in Brazil than in the other places where it exists. Far more intense in Brazil, but present in dozens of countries. [2]: 3 of 4
Rarity coefficient R R = E + 0.5 × (I ÷ 4) × (1 − E) R = 0 + 0.5 × (3 ÷ 4) × (1 − 0) = 0.38: 0.38
Jabuticaba Index®: 38%

Not part of the score

Awareness

How aware Brazilians are that this is rare abroad.

Seen as Brazilian, despite its European origin. editorial judgment

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05Sources

[1]
A. Nonymous, P. Laceholder. A Global Survey of Allegedly Unique Things
University of Nowhere Press · Jun 2024 · Academic
example.org/fictional-survey · accessed Sep 25, 2026
[2]
Censo Imaginário de Coisas Brasileiras 2025
Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia Imaginária · 2025 · Statistical data · in Portuguese
example.org/fictional-census · accessed Sep 25, 2026

Last reviewed Sep 25, 2026 · Methodology v0.2