Rio de Janeiro – Currently, around 700,000 foreigners live in Brazil. Of this total, 70.3% are in the Southeast, according to the Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics (IBGE) Synthesis of Social Indices study.
The figures in the study also show that, in 2008, the country had 19.7 million migrants – Brazilians who move to a different region within the country. According to the study, the largest group in this category was of Northeasterners, which represented 10.5 million people, or 53.4% of the total. The second group that most migrated was from the Southeast (20.5% of the total) and most moved to the Midwest (35.8%).
Another figure shows that in Brazil the average demographic density in 2008 was 22.3 inhabitants per square kilometre. The North, with 45.2% of the total area of the country and just 8.1% of the population has just 4.0 inhabitants per square kilometre, whereas the Southeast, with 42% of the total population, has the largest density (86.3 inhabitants per square kilometre).
In the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo alone, there are 19.5 million people, or 47.9% of the state population. In the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro, with 11.5 million people, in turn, lives 73.4% of the inhabitants of the state.
*Translated by Mark Ament
