The population of Brazil

Brazil, whose population is in fifth place and second only to India, China, Indonesia and America, is a very multinational country. For several hundred years the nation has turned into a major ethno-cultural formation. The population of Brazil is more than one hundred nationalities and peoples.

In this country, statistical research of the number is conducted quite actively not only by local, but also by foreign organizations. For example, numerous agencies in the United States are regularly interested in statistical data.

If you distribute the population of Brazil by age category, the median age of the average Brazilian is about twenty-eight years. This indicator is the number of years of a resident of the state, which is obtained as a result of the total summation of the number of years within specific age categories, dividing it by the number of inhabitants of the country as a whole. According to the testimony of the unified statistical service, in the country there are about fourteen percent of the inhabitants, whose age is up to fourteen years. The working population of Brazil (from fifteen to sixty-four years old) is sixty-eight percent. The rest are residents over the age of sixty-five.

For this Latin American state there is a natural increase. For example, in 2010 it was 1.17%. It should be noted that some forecasts are somewhat ahead of the course of events. For example, in 2005, experts studying the demographic situation, predicted that by 2010, the population of Brazil will be more than two hundred million people. But that did not happen.

In Brazil, live almost all known races on the planet. Today, some ethno-cultural groups, which are distributed in a certain percentage, belong to the Brazilians. Thus, Indians (who are indigenous to the continent ) are about 0.45%, Asians (Vietnamese, Japanese, Chinese) - 0.5%, Brazilians with black skin make up about 6.2%. Among the mulattoes is 38.5%, while whites are about 54% of all inhabitants of the country. White Brazilians include ethnic Portuguese (20%), Italians (14%), Spaniards (about 8%), Germans (6.6%), Arabs (5.3%). It should be noted, however, that, for example, there are even Arab neighborhoods in São Paulo. They are quite compact living natives of Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Yemen and other North African countries and states of the Arabian Peninsula.

The density of the population of Brazil is about twenty people per square meter. It should be noted that the residents are very unevenly distributed across the territory. Thus, almost half of the total population is settled by 7% of the total area, along a narrow strip of the Atlantic coast. Thus, in the southeast, there are seventy people per square meter, and in the north - two.

For Brazil is characterized by rapid urbanization. For example, in the 1960s, the townspeople accounted for 46%, and by 2007 their share had increased to 85%.

Women in Brazil live on average almost eight and a half years more than men. The average life expectancy in the country is about 71.7 years. Men in the country are 1% (two million people) less than women. At the same time, boys are born more according to statistics. But they have a higher mortality rate at an early age.

Despite the fact that the country belongs to one of the fastest growing in South America, the level of education in Brazil is not very high. For example, women are educated at 88.8%, and men - 88.4%.

By the level of per capita income, Brazil is on one of the data is on the fifty-fifth, and according to other information in the seventy-first place. In this it is much inferior to Chile, Argentina and Venezuela.