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  2. Social issues in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Along with the problem of poverty, Brazil is among the ten most unequal countries in the world, according to the Institute of Applied Economic Research (Ipea) of Brazil. Brazil has 0.539 by the Gini index, based on 2018 data. It is among the ten most unequal countries in the world, being the only Latin American in the list where Africans appear.

  3. Urban hierarchy in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    The zone centers are the cities or towns that have an important regional influence, but limited to the immediate surrounding area, and exercising elementary management functions. These are subdivided into two levels: A zone centers (cities such as Tabatinga , Lagoa Vermelha , Lins and Três de Maio ) and B zone centers (towns such as Afonso ...

  4. Urbanization by sovereign state - Wikipedia

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    The second measure, rate of urbanization, describes the projected average rate of change of the size of the urban population over the given period of time. As of 2022, countries with more than 80% of people living in urban areas include the United States , Canada , Mexico , Brazil , Argentina , Chile , Japan , Australia , the United Kingdom ...

  5. Brazil mayoral elections bolster center-right ahead of 2026 ...

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    Centrist and center-right parties won city halls and consolidated control of town councils across Brazil in Sunday's municipal elections, underscoring a conservative shift in the country's ...

  6. List of Brazilian federative units by urbanization rate

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    Urban Rate Rural Rate 1 Rio de Janeiro: 96.71 3.29 2 Federal District: 96.62 3.38 3 São Paulo: 95.88 4.12 4 Goiás: 90.29 9.71 5 Amapá: 89.81 10.19 6 Mato Grosso do Sul: 85.64 14.36 7 Paraná: 85.31 14.49 8 Espírito Santo: 85.29 14.51 9 Rio Grande do Sul: 85.10 14.90 10 Santa Catarina: 83.99 16.01 11 Minas Gerais: 83.38 16.62 12 Mato Grosso ...

  7. Urbanization - Wikipedia

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    Urbanization over the past 500 years [13] A global map illustrating the first onset and spread of urban centres around the world, based on. [14]From the development of the earliest cities in Indus valley civilization, Mesopotamia and Egypt until the 18th century, an equilibrium existed between the vast majority of the population who were engaged in subsistence agriculture in a rural context ...

  8. List of cities in Brazil by population - Wikipedia

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    Population distribution in Brazil. Brazil has a high level of urbanization with 87.8% [1] of the population residing in urban and metropolitan areas. The criteria used by the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) [2] in determining whether households are urban or rural, however, are based on political divisions, not on the developed environment.

  9. List of Brazilian federative units by Human Development Index

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    The methodology used by the UNDP to measure the HDI of all 5,565 Brazilian municipalities and 27 federative units differs from that used for countries. Although it has the same three dimensions of the global HDI—education, income and longevity—it adapts the global methodology to the Brazilian context and the availability of national indicators. [15]