Brazil now home to over 208.4 million

Brazil is home to a total of 208,494,900 people spread across the country’s 5,570 municipalities, as per figures released today (Aug. 29) by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, the IBGE. The figure is an estimate for July 1, and is up 0.82% from June, 2017.

The calculation takes into account the Venezuelan immigrants in the state of Roraima, of whom 99 percent are concentrated in the municipalities of Boa Vista and Pacaraima.

Seventeen municipalities in Brazil have over 1 million inhabitants. Altogether, they add up to 45.7 million, or 21.9 percent of the population. São Paulo is still the most populous, with 12.2 million, followed by Rio de Janeiro, with 6.7 million. Brasília and Salvador are home to approximately 3 million people each.

States

The three most populous states are in the Southeast region, the five least populous ones in the North.

The most populous is São Paulo state, with 45.5 million inhabitants (21.8 percent of the country’s population). Roraima is the least populated state, with 576.6 thousand inhabitants (a mere 0.3 percent of the total).