Rio de Janeiro – The Brazilian population increased by 0.8% last year to 196.9 million. The information was culled from the Nationwide Household Sampling Survey released this Friday (27th) by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). The country has an additional 1.6 million people.
The highest and lowest increments were seen in the North (1.4%) and the South (0.6%). Nearly half the Brazilian population is concentrated in the Southeast (82.7 million). The Midwest has 14.8 million inhabitants. Women are the majority: 51.3% of the population.
The age pyramid shows that the population is aging. The rate of elderly people, aged 60 or older, has risen from 12.1% to 12.6%; 14.2% of the population is comprised of elderlies in the South, and 8.1% in the Northeast. As of 2004, 42.8% of all Brazilians were aged up to 24, at the bottom of the age pyramid. By 2012 the rate had dropped to 39.6%.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum