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Brazil's population exceeds 206 million

Xinhua, August 31, 2016 Adjust font size:

Brazil's population exceeded 206 million in July this year, 0.79 percent more than in the same month in 2015, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) said Tuesday.

The government body reported that Latin America's biggest country had a total of 206.08 million inhabitants in its 5,570 municipalities on July 1, 2016, overcoming the 204.45 million figure released a year ago.

The southeastern state of Sao Paulo was the most populated with 44.7 million inhabitants, representing 21.7 percent of Brazil's total population.

The states of Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro, both also in the southeast, followed in the list with 20.9 million and 16.6 million inhabitants, respectively.

The least populated Brazilian state, on the other hand, was the Amazonic Roraima, on the border with Venezuela and Guyana, which only registered 514,200 inhabitants, representing 0.2 percent of Brazil's total population.

According to the study by the IBGE, 56.4 percent of Brazil's population, almost 116.1 million people, are concentrated in only 309 municipalities, which takes up 5.5 percent of Brazil's total territory, with each housing over 100,000 inhabitants.

A total of 21.9 percent of the total population live in the 17 cities with populations of over one million residents.

The 41 municipalities with over 500,000 inhabitants make up 29.9 percent of Brazil's population, representing 61.6 million people.

The municipalities with up to 20,000 inhabitants represent 68.4 percent, even though only 32.3 million people live in them, representing 15.8 percent of the total population.

Sao Paulo is Brazil's most populated city with 12.03 million inhabitants, followed by Rio de Janeiro with 6.49 million, Brasilia with 2.97 million, Salvador with 2.93 million and Fortaleza with 2.6 million.

If the metropolitan areas are taken into consideration, Sao Paulo leads the demographic list with a population of 21.24 million, beating Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte and Brasilia. Endit