The population of Brazil

Brazil, whose population by numberoccupies the fifth place and second only to India, China, Indonesia and America, is a very multiethnic country. For several hundred years, the nation has become a major ethno-cultural entity. The population of Brazil is more than one hundred nationalities and peoples.

This country is quite activestatistical research of the number not only by local, but also by foreign organizations. For example, numerous agencies in the United States are regularly interested in statistical data.

If we distribute the population of Brazil byage categories, the median age of the average Brazilian is about twenty-eight years. This indicator is the number of years of a resident of the state, which is obtained as a result of the total summation of the number of years within specific age categories, dividing it by the number of inhabitants of the country as a whole. According to the testimony of the unified statistical service, there are about fourteen percent of residents in the country, whose age is up to fourteen. The working population of Brazil (from fifteen to sixty-four years old) is sixty-eight percent. The rest are residents over the age of sixty-five.

For this Latin American statea natural increase is characteristic. For example, in 2010 it was 1.17%. It should be noted that some forecasts are somewhat ahead of the course of events. For example, in 2005, experts studying the demographic situation, predicted that by 2010 the population of Brazil will be more than two hundred million inhabitants. But that did not happen.

In Brazil, almost all the knownrace on the planet. Today, some ethno-cultural groups, distributed in a certain percentage, belong to the Brazilians. Thus, Indians (who are indigenous to the continent) are about 0.45%, Asians (Vietnamese, Japanese, Chinese) - 0.5%, Brazilians with black skin make up about 6.2%. 38.5% of mulattoes belong to the mulatto, whilst whites are around 54% of all inhabitants of the country. White Brazilians include ethnic Portuguese (20%), Italians (14%), Spaniards (about 8%), Germans (6.6%), Arabs (5.3%). It should be noted, however, that, for example, in São Paulo there are even Arab neighborhoods. There are quite compact living natives of Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Yemen and other North African countries and states of the Arabian Peninsula.

The density of the population of Brazil is about twentyperson per square meter. It should be noted that the residents are very unevenly distributed across the territory. Thus, almost half of the total population is settled by 7% of the total area, along a narrow strip of the Atlantic coast. Thus, in the southeast, there are seventy people per square meter, and in the north - two.

For Brazil is characterized by rapid urbanization. So, for example, in the 1960s, the townspeople made up 46%, and by 2007 their share increased to 85%.

Women in Brazil live on average almosteight and a half years more than men. The average life expectancy in the country is about 71.7 years. Men in the country are 1% (two million people) less than women. At the same time, boys are born more according to statistics. But they have a higher mortality rate at an early age.

Despite the fact that the country belongs to one of thethe fastest growing in South America, the level of education in Brazil is not very high. For example, women are educated at 88.8%, and men - 88.4%.

By the level of per capita income, Brazil is on the fifth place by one data, and by other information on the seventy-first place. In this it is much inferior to Chile, Argentina and Venezuela.