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The Northeast, with 1,561,178 square kilometers (602,774 sq mi), covers 18.3% of the national terrest concentration of rural population, and its living standards are the lowest in Brazil. [1] In 1994 Piauí had the lowest per capita income in the region and the country, only US$835, while Sergipe had the highest average income in the region ...
The population of Brazil is estimated based on various sources from 1550 to 1850. The first official census took place in 1872. From that year, every 10 years (with some exceptions) the population is counted. [9] Brazil is the seventh most populated country in the world. 1550 – 15,000; 1600 – 100,000; 1660 – 184,000; 1700 – 300,000 ...
Roman Catholicism: Practiced by 69 percent [115] of the Latin American population (61 percent [115] in Brazil whose Roman Catholic population of 134 million [116] is the greatest of any nation's), approximately 24 percent of the United States' population [117] and about 39 percent of Canada's. [118]
Brazil, [b] officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, [c] is the largest and easternmost country in South America. It is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh largest by population, with over 212 million people. The country is a federation composed of 26 states and a Federal District, which hosts the capital, Brasília.
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.
Brazil – largest country in both South America and Latin America. With a geographical area of 8.5 million km 2, Brazil is also the largest country in the Southern Hemisphere and the world's fifth-largest country. With over 206 million people, Brazil is the seventh-most-populous country in the world.
English: Map of Brazilian states by population density. Português: Mapa dos estados brasileiros por densidade demográfica. This W3C-unspecified vector image was created with Inkscape .
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