Refrigerator (control group) · Jabuticaba Index®

01Where else it exists

SovereignColonial

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

Sovereign projection: Equal Earth centered on 60° W, south up, as on IBGE's world maps. Colonial projection: Equal Earth. Places with uncertain presence take the color of the highest possible level; the table shows the full range.

Place (146)

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]
Cambodia	Widespread	1	[1]
Cameroon	Widespread	1	[1]
Canada	Widespread	1	[1]
Cape Verde	Widespread	1	[1]
Netherlands (Caribbean Netherlands)	Widespread	1	[1]
United Kingdom (Cayman Islands)	Widespread	1	[1]
Central African Republic	Widespread	1	[1]
Chile	Widespread	1	[1]
China	Widespread	1	[1]
Colombia	Widespread	1	[1]
Comoros	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]
Jamaica	Widespread	1	[1]
Japan	Widespread	1	[1]
United Kingdom (Jersey)	Widespread	1	[1]
Jordan	Widespread	1	[1]
Kazakhstan	Widespread	1	[1]
Kenya	Widespread	1	[1]
Kiribati	Widespread	1	[1]
Kuwait	Widespread	1	[1]
Kyrgyzstan	Widespread	1	[1]
Laos	Widespread	1	[1]
Latvia	Widespread	1	[1]
Lebanon	Widespread	1	[1]
Lesotho	Widespread	1	[1]
Liberia	Widespread	1	[1]
Libya	Widespread	1	[1]
Liechtenstein	Widespread	1	[1]
Lithuania	Widespread	1	[1]
Luxembourg	Widespread	1	[1]
China (Macao SAR China)	Widespread	1	[1]
Madagascar	Widespread	1	[1]
Mali	Widespread	1	[1]
Marshall Islands	Widespread	1	[1]
France (Martinique)	Widespread	1	[1]
Mauritania	Widespread	1	[1]
Micronesia	Widespread	1	[1]
Moldova	Widespread	1	[1]
Monaco	Widespread	1	[1]
Mongolia	Widespread	1	[1]
Montenegro	Widespread	1	[1]
Morocco	Widespread	1	[1]
Myanmar (Burma)	Widespread	1	[1]
North Korea	Widespread	1	[1]
North Macedonia	Widespread	1	[1]
United States (Northern Mariana Islands)	Widespread	1	[1]
United Kingdom (South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands)	Widespread	1	[1]
South Korea	Widespread	1	[1]
Spain	Widespread	1	[1]
Sri Lanka	Widespread	1	[1]
France (St. Barthélemy)	Widespread	1	[1]
St. Kitts & Nevis	Widespread	1	[1]
St. Lucia	Widespread	1	[1]
France (St. Martin)	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		146

02What exactly is being measured

Electric household refrigerator.

03Context

The control group confirms that the index does not attribute Brazilianness to universal appliances ^[1].

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.: 146
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. No difference in prevalence found (fictional data). [1]: 0 of 4
Rarity coefficient R R = E + 0.5 × (I ÷ 4) × (1 − E) R = 0 + 0.5 × (0 ÷ 4) × (1 − 0) = 0: 0
Jabuticaba Index®: 0%

Not part of the score

Awareness

How aware Brazilians are that this is rare abroad.

Not applicable: nobody thinks the refrigerator is Brazilian. editorial judgment

2 of 4

Evidence grade

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

05Sources

[1]
Censo Imaginário de Coisas Brasileiras 2025
Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia Imaginária · 2025 · Statistical data · in Portuguese
example.org/fictional-census · accessed Sep 25, 2026