Brésil

Interesting Facts About Brésil

• Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh-largest by population, with over 213 million people as of July 2025.
• Brazil is the only Portuguese-speaking country in the Americas and has the largest Lusophone population in the world.
• According to the 2022 census, 45.3% of the Brazilian population identified as Pardo (brown or multiracial), 43.5% as White, and 10.2% as Black.
• European ancestry accounts for between 60% and 65% of the average genetic makeup of the Brazilian population, while African ancestry comprises 20-25% and Indigenous ancestry 15-20%.
• Urban areas concentrate 84.35% of Brazil's population, with the Southeast region remaining the most populated, containing over 80 million inhabitants.
• The three largest urban agglomerations in Brazil are São Paulo (21.1 million inhabitants), Rio de Janeiro (12.3 million), and Belo Horizonte (5.1 million).
• Between 1808 and 1972, approximately five million people from over 60 countries immigrated to Brazil, including Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, German, Jewish, African, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Arab immigrants.
• Brazil's illiteracy rate fell significantly from 54% in 1940 to roughly 7% in 2022.

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