Rio de Janeiro – The Brazilian population is 190,732,694, according to the results of the 2010 Census, disclosed this Monday (29th) by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). In comparison with the 2000 Census, the population has grown by 12.3% over a ten-year period, a rate equivalent to 20.9 million Brazilians. The rate of growth, however, has been lower than the 15.6% recorded in the previous decade (1991 to 2000).
The population is even more urban now than it used to be 10 years ago. In 2000, the IBGE recorded that 81% of Brazilians lived in cities, as against 84% in 2010. The Southeast Region remains the country’s most populated, at 80,353,724 people, even though its share has dropped from 42.8 to 42.1% of the total Brazilian population over the past decade.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
