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  2. Demographics of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Brazil - Wikipedia

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    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 203 million people. The country is a federation composed of 26 states and a Federal District, which hosts the capital, Brasília.

  4. List of countries by population (United Nations) - Wikipedia

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    Statistical subregions as defined by the United Nations Statistics Division [1]. This is the list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2024 revision of World Population Prospects.

  5. 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.

  6. History of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Brazil: The Once and Future Country (2nd ed. 1998), an interpretive synthesis of Brazil's history. Fausto, Boris, and Arthur Brakel. A Concise History of Brazil (Cambridge Concise Histories) (2nd ed. 2014) excerpt and text search; Garfield, Seth. In Search of the Amazon: Brazil, the United States, and the Nature of a Region. Durham: Duke ...

  7. 2010 Brazilian census - Wikipedia

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    The Brazilian 2010 Census was the twelfth census of Brazil, organized by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), with the reference date being August 1, 2010. The population was found to be a record 190,755,799, an increase of 12.5%. [1] [2] The population

  8. Economy of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    In the space of fifty five years (1950 to 2005), the population of Brazil grew from 51 million to approximately 187 million inhabitants, [63] an increase of over 2 percent per year. Brazil created and expanded a complex agribusiness sector. [62] However, some of this is at the expense of the environment, including the Amazon.

  9. Recife - Wikipedia

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    It is the largest city in Pernambuco state, and the fourth-largest urban area in all of Brazil; the metro population of the city of Recife was 3,726,974 in 2022. [4] [5] [6] Recife was founded in 1537, serving as the main harbor of the Captaincy of Pernambuco—known for its large-scale production of sugar cane. [7]