2010 Census data being reported
BRASILIA – Brazil's population, which reached 190.7 million people in 2010, is growing at the slowest pace on record (1.12% per year) and unevenly across the national territory with the highest rates concentrated in the North and Central West.
Census 2010 (photo: educadora560.com.br)
The information appeared in the Summary of the 2010 Census, which contains the first definitive results of the last census and was released by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). According to the survey, the Brazilian population has grown 12.3% since 2000, when there were 169.8 million people in the country and reached 190,755,799 in 2010.
During this period, following the trend of recent decades, the rural population has lost 2 million and reduced its stake to 15.6% of the total. The urban population gained 23 million members and now represents 84.4% of all Brazilians.
The ten states where the population grew since the last census were in the North and Mid-West. Among them, Amapa, Roraima and Acre had annual population growth of 3.45%, 3.34% and 2.78% respectively.
Gabriel Borges, researcher at the Department of Population and Social Indicators at IBGE, said that the greatest growth in the North and Mid-West largely reflects the migration to new agribusiness areas, the so-called “new agricultural frontier.”
According to him, most of these migrants became integrated with the urban population in these regions, not the field. The states with the lowest growth were Rio Grande do Sul, with 0.49%, Bahia, 0.70% and Parana, with 0.89%.
The census reveals little population change among the largest cities: Sao Paulo leads the way with 11.2 million inhabitants, followed by Rio de Janeiro with 6.3 million, Salvador 2.6 million and Brasilia 2 million. Also, Fortaleza 2.4 million, Belo Horizonte 2.3 million and Manaus 1.9 million. Rounding out the top-ten list are Curitiba 1.7 million, Recife 1.5 million and Porto Alegre 1.4 million.
While remaining the most populous cities, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro are among the four capitals which have grown the least during the last decade, with an average population increase of just 0.76% per year. At the other extreme are Boa Vista and Palmas which grew at 5.21% and 3.55% respectively.
To conduct the census, which serves as a parameter for public policy and occurs every ten years, counters visited 67.6 million households. The census takers failed to conduct and interview at 901,000 residences. In these cases, a mathematical methodology is used to estimate the number of inhabitants.
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