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In that year, the Brazilian economy grew 1.0% in real terms according to revised figures of the IBGE. The per capita accounts of the GDP were R$22,813.47 or US$11.521,95 in nominal terms, and Int$14,537.40 in PPP terms. The Brazilian population, in 2012, was 193,300,291, ranking 5th worldwide and totaling 2.84% of the world's population.
Historical population of Brazil Population of Brazil, 1550–2005 Life expectancy in Brazil since 1900 Life expectancy in Brazil since 1960 by gender According to the 2008 PNAD (National Household Sample Survey), conducted by the IBGE , the Brazilian Statistics bureau, there were about 189,953,000 inhabitants in 2008. [ 8 ]
Acre became a state in 1962. [11] In 1960, the rectangular-shaped Distrito Federal was carved out of Goiás to contain the new capital, Brasília. [12] [13] The previous federal district became the state of Guanabara, [8] but in 1975 it was reincorporated into its original state of Rio de Janeiro, becoming its capital as the city of Rio de ...
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.
San Francisco's African American population has declined in recent decades, [9] from 13.4% of the population in 1970 to 6.1% in 2010. [11] The current percentage of African Americans in San Francisco is similar to that of the state of California; [ 11 ] conversely, the city's percentage of Hispanic residents is less than half of that of the state.
The economic history of Brazil covers various economic events and traces the changes in the Brazilian economy over the course of the history of Brazil. Portugal , which first colonized the area in the 16th century, enforced a colonial pact with Brazil, an imperial mercantile policy, which drove development for the subsequent three centuries. [ 1 ]
São Paulo is Brazil's highest GDP city and one of the largest in the world. [165] [166] According to data from the IBGE, its gross domestic product (GDP) in 2010 was R$450 billion, [167] approximately US$220 billion, 12.26% of Brazilian GDP and 36% of the São Paulo state's GDP. [168] The per capita income for the city was R$32,493 in 2008. [169]
The Brazilian diaspora is the migration of Brazilians to other countries, a mostly recent phenomenon that has been driven mainly by economic recession and hyperinflation that afflicted Brazil in the 1980s and early 1990s, and since 2014, by the political and economic crisis that culminated in the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff in 2016 and the election of Jair Bolsonaro in 2018, as well as the ...