Country or area · South America · Latin America and the Caribbean · Americas · UN WPP 2024

Brazil population

Brazil population now

213,739,481

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 212.5–215.5 million.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 211,140,729

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 213.563 million; 95% range, 31 Dec: 212.5–215.5 million
Median age: 36.2
Aged 65+: 11.9%

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male female projection · one cell = 50,000 people

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BRA · 1950–2100 · in brief

Brazil in numbers

211,140,729 people lived in Brazil in mid-2023: 2.6% of the world's people, and the 7th-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports. That is 4.0 times its 1950 population of 53.4 million.

The UN's medium projection has it peaking in 2042 at 219 million, then falling to 163 million by 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 102 million to 237 million.

Births stay ahead of deaths until 2043; in the medium projection, deaths are ahead every year after it.

The median age was 18.5 in 1950 and 34.9 in 2023; the projection has 51.7 in 2100. 10.6% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 33.6% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is projected to peak in 2033 at 148 million.

Its place in the world by population: 7th in 2023, 9th in 2050, 12th in 2100. It is overtaken by Ethiopia in 2049, the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2050 and Bangladesh in 2052.

Population, mid-2023: 211,140,729
Rank by population, 2023: 7 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: 2.6%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +0.40% · +834,315 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 25
Land area, 2023: 8,358,140 km²
Births, 2023: 2,601,670
Deaths, 2023: 1,494,154
Net migration, 2023: −240,059
Children per woman, 2023: 1.62
Median age, 2023: 34.9 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 75.8 years
In a city, 2025: 54 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 53,408,551
Projected, mid-2050: 217,489,300
Projected, mid-2100: 163,364,064

BRA · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection, up to the bottom of the 95% range 95% range medium projection. Every column stands for a single year, counted on 1 January, and the paper rules slice it into cells of equal size.

Show the numbers: Brazil, 1950–2100

Brazil: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	95% range	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	52,620,377		2,476,917	910,277	6.12	48.5
1951	estimate	54,196,725		2,551,063	916,723	6.12	49.0
1952	estimate	55,840,978		2,622,122	923,498	6.10	49.5
1953	estimate	57,548,766		2,693,194	932,397	6.09	50.0
1954	estimate	59,318,747		2,764,262	940,727	6.09	50.4
1955	estimate	61,151,497		2,835,923	948,647	6.08	50.9
1956	estimate	63,051,279		2,907,347	956,303	6.08	51.3
1957	estimate	65,016,712		2,978,676	963,628	6.08	51.8
1958	estimate	67,046,273		3,048,945	971,334	6.08	52.3
1959	estimate	69,138,010		3,116,445	978,232	6.08	52.7
1960	estimate	71,290,929		3,174,191	983,862	6.05	53.2
1961	estimate	73,485,324		3,229,848	989,676	6.02	53.6
1962	estimate	75,725,571		3,282,008	995,330	5.98	54.0
1963	estimate	78,005,076		3,326,023	999,568	5.93	54.5
1964	estimate	80,323,393		3,341,148	1,002,601	5.82	54.9
1965	estimate	82,653,796		3,339,611	1,003,216	5.68	55.2
1966	estimate	84,981,369		3,328,213	1,002,920	5.52	55.6
1967	estimate	87,297,348		3,308,677	1,001,092	5.34	56.0
1968	estimate	89,594,899		3,297,984	996,440	5.17	56.5
1969	estimate	91,887,581		3,320,326	996,170	5.04	56.9
1970	estimate	94,203,972		3,360,206	998,070	4.93	57.3
1971	estimate	96,547,330		3,408,619	1,001,318	4.84	57.8
1972	estimate	98,931,217		3,459,178	1,004,429	4.74	58.3
1973	estimate	101,362,377		3,511,293	1,010,023	4.64	58.7
1974	estimate	103,839,574		3,539,644	1,015,355	4.50	59.1
1975	estimate	106,339,777		3,603,503	1,018,422	4.42	59.6
1976	estimate	108,899,353		3,672,318	1,023,714	4.34	60.0
1977	estimate	111,527,345		3,744,409	1,029,042	4.27	60.5
1978	estimate	114,223,240		3,812,431	1,033,610	4.20	60.9
1979	estimate	116,978,644		3,875,118	1,038,268	4.12	61.4
1980	estimate	119,782,997		3,929,237	1,041,387	4.04	61.8
1981	estimate	122,631,924		3,972,186	1,043,844	3.94	62.3
1982	estimate	125,494,294		3,993,366	1,044,880	3.84	62.7
1983	estimate	128,352,017		3,997,588	1,045,143	3.72	63.1
1984	estimate	131,228,137		3,975,419	1,043,942	3.60	63.5
1985	estimate	134,089,590		3,954,827	1,041,931	3.48	64.0
1986	estimate	136,941,601		3,920,909	1,040,396	3.36	64.4
1987	estimate	139,731,139		3,863,816	1,038,404	3.23	64.8
1988	estimate	142,478,749		3,805,480	1,037,439	3.11	65.2
1989	estimate	145,173,965		3,756,979	1,038,950	3.01	65.5
1990	estimate	147,831,978		3,693,601	1,040,554	2.90	65.9
1991	estimate	150,454,468		3,649,867	1,043,678	2.81	66.2
1992	estimate	152,994,044		3,594,913	1,047,240	2.71	66.5
1993	estimate	155,556,113		3,598,469	1,052,484	2.66	66.9
1994	estimate	158,033,041		3,587,423	1,054,529	2.60	67.3
1995	estimate	160,496,971		3,603,870	1,057,700	2.57	67.7
1996	estimate	162,973,176		3,591,408	1,060,723	2.51	68.1
1997	estimate	165,431,922		3,597,299	1,065,422	2.47	68.5
1998	estimate	167,891,396		3,589,766	1,074,928	2.42	68.8
1999	estimate	170,427,914		3,532,491	1,081,717	2.33	69.2
2000	estimate	172,855,172		3,459,239	1,087,228	2.25	69.6
2001	estimate	175,181,391		3,382,286	1,091,069	2.16	70.0
2002	estimate	177,421,015		3,300,495	1,093,540	2.08	70.4
2003	estimate	179,585,952		3,218,588	1,089,771	2.01	70.9
2004	estimate	181,659,425		3,196,886	1,088,788	1.97	71.4
2005	estimate	183,690,861		3,172,258	1,088,912	1.94	71.8
2006	estimate	185,685,342		3,115,423	1,089,256	1.90	72.3
2007	estimate	187,620,869		3,062,690	1,092,309	1.85	72.7
2008	estimate	189,483,771		3,008,005	1,099,893	1.81	73.1
2009	estimate	191,250,832		2,989,532	1,111,083	1.80	73.5
2010	estimate	192,909,069		2,970,979	1,123,718	1.79	73.8
2011	estimate	194,494,790		2,956,872	1,141,132	1.78	74.0
2012	estimate	196,074,679		2,940,339	1,157,773	1.77	74.3
2013	estimate	197,677,544		2,934,515	1,175,770	1.76	74.6
2014	estimate	199,279,055		2,957,978	1,200,101	1.77	74.8
2015	estimate	200,891,199		2,961,442	1,219,162	1.78	75.1
2016	estimate	202,459,865		2,874,734	1,265,251	1.73	75.1
2017	estimate	203,976,362		2,891,049	1,280,587	1.74	75.4
2018	estimate	205,430,528		2,889,976	1,306,179	1.74	75.6
2019	estimate	206,783,993		2,810,666	1,338,510	1.71	75.8
2020	estimate	208,126,926		2,711,546	1,565,282	1.65	74.5
2021	estimate	209,194,759		2,672,684	1,753,027	1.64	73.0
2022	estimate	209,905,829		2,640,391	1,585,581	1.63	74.9
2023	estimate	210,707,000		2,601,670	1,494,154	1.62	75.8
2024	estimate	211,574,458		2,572,100	1,498,363	1.61	76.0
2025	projection	212,422,689	212.0–212.9 million	2,528,724	1,532,002	1.60	76.2
2026	projection	213,202,121	212.3–214.2 million	2,492,914	1,566,186	1.59	76.4
2027	projection	213,923,212	212.5–215.5 million	2,461,631	1,600,670	1.58	76.5
2028	projection	214,598,839	212.6–216.8 million	2,433,369	1,635,518	1.58	76.7
2029	projection	215,223,907	212.6–217.9 million	2,410,757	1,670,671	1.58	76.9
2030	projection	215,806,434	212.4–219.1 million	2,388,528	1,706,255	1.58	77.1
2031	projection	216,342,388	212.2–220.3 million	2,366,895	1,741,472	1.57	77.2
2032	projection	216,832,311	212.0–221.5 million	2,344,074	1,778,231	1.57	77.4
2033	projection	217,278,457	211.7–222.4 million	2,325,924	1,815,197	1.57	77.6
2034	projection	217,680,312	211.1–223.4 million	2,307,978	1,851,631	1.57	77.7
2035	projection	218,041,454	210.7–224.5 million	2,289,062	1,887,325	1.57	77.9
2036	projection	218,357,961	210.1–225.4 million	2,270,540	1,924,392	1.57	78.1
2037	projection	218,632,447	209.5–226.4 million	2,254,283	1,962,708	1.57	78.2
2038	projection	218,862,035	209.1–227.2 million	2,238,787	2,000,476	1.57	78.4
2039	projection	219,049,088	208.4–228.0 million	2,218,213	2,036,692	1.57	78.6
2040	projection	219,187,659	207.7–228.9 million	2,202,063	2,072,581	1.57	78.7
2041	projection	219,286,508	206.9–229.7 million	2,182,430	2,107,874	1.57	78.9
2042	projection	219,327,789	206.2–230.5 million	2,160,640	2,143,152	1.57	79.0
2043	projection	219,311,733	205.3–231.2 million	2,140,442	2,178,556	1.57	79.2
2044	projection	219,241,307	204.2–231.7 million	2,119,323	2,212,666	1.57	79.4
2045	projection	219,116,682	203.2–232.4 million	2,096,811	2,244,970	1.57	79.5
2046	projection	218,935,711	202.2–232.9 million	2,078,184	2,276,818	1.57	79.7
2047	projection	218,706,356	201.1–233.4 million	2,056,827	2,306,815	1.56	79.8
2048	projection	218,424,380	199.8–233.9 million	2,037,048	2,336,420	1.56	80.0
2049	projection	218,092,059	198.4–234.5 million	2,014,658	2,365,714	1.56	80.1
2050	projection	217,703,593	197.1–235.2 million	1,993,661	2,392,261	1.56	80.3
2051	projection	217,275,006	195.9–235.8 million	1,975,710	2,418,881	1.56	80.5
2052	projection	216,805,643	194.5–236.0 million	1,956,479	2,443,666	1.56	80.6
2053	projection	216,287,245	193.2–236.3 million	1,935,633	2,468,671	1.56	80.8
2054	projection	215,723,405	191.7–236.6 million	1,915,954	2,494,446	1.56	80.9
2055	projection	215,116,407	190.4–236.9 million	1,897,968	2,517,201	1.56	81.0
2056	projection	214,467,502	188.9–237.3 million	1,878,169	2,537,689	1.56	81.2
2057	projection	213,780,281	187.1–237.4 million	1,857,506	2,559,360	1.56	81.4
2058	projection	213,048,302	185.5–237.5 million	1,837,908	2,579,080	1.56	81.5
2059	projection	212,277,699	183.6–237.6 million	1,818,978	2,600,768	1.56	81.7
2060	projection	211,463,834	181.9–238.1 million	1,803,352	2,621,622	1.56	81.8
2061	projection	210,613,768	180.4–238.0 million	1,785,935	2,643,899	1.56	81.9
2062	projection	209,727,160	178.9–238.0 million	1,767,921	2,661,336	1.56	82.1
2063	projection	208,801,253	177.1–237.8 million	1,753,941	2,678,258	1.57	82.2
2064	projection	207,841,710	175.3–238.4 million	1,741,337	2,697,500	1.57	82.4
2065	projection	206,854,171	173.3–238.3 million	1,726,585	2,714,398	1.57	82.5
2066	projection	205,832,711	171.3–238.4 million	1,710,777	2,731,195	1.57	82.6
2067	projection	204,780,648	169.7–238.6 million	1,697,317	2,743,705	1.57	82.8
2068	projection	203,704,415	167.7–238.5 million	1,682,354	2,758,542	1.57	82.9
2069	projection	202,597,820	165.3–238.4 million	1,670,627	2,770,753	1.57	83.0
2070	projection	201,468,671	163.2–238.4 million	1,657,083	2,779,987	1.57	83.2
2071	projection	200,317,441	161.5–238.6 million	1,643,782	2,789,776	1.57	83.3
2072	projection	199,142,696	159.2–238.3 million	1,632,208	2,797,071	1.57	83.4
2073	projection	197,949,376	156.8–238.1 million	1,618,011	2,799,331	1.57	83.6
2074	projection	196,737,148	154.8–238.1 million	1,606,991	2,801,372	1.57	83.7
2075	projection	195,513,012	153.0–237.6 million	1,594,225	2,799,103	1.57	83.8
2076	projection	194,278,809	150.7–237.5 million	1,581,885	2,797,907	1.58	84.0
2077	projection	193,033,262	149.1–237.6 million	1,566,358	2,794,157	1.58	84.1
2078	projection	191,776,428	147.1–237.7 million	1,551,546	2,787,230	1.58	84.2
2079	projection	190,510,934	145.3–237.6 million	1,535,953	2,779,688	1.57	84.3
2080	projection	189,238,164	142.8–237.2 million	1,519,710	2,770,577	1.57	84.5
2081	projection	187,959,412	140.4–236.8 million	1,504,658	2,762,702	1.57	84.6
2082	projection	186,673,306	138.3–236.5 million	1,491,796	2,750,680	1.57	84.7
2083	projection	185,386,116	136.8–236.6 million	1,477,935	2,736,591	1.57	84.8
2084	projection	184,101,815	134.8–236.6 million	1,464,517	2,721,643	1.58	85.0
2085	projection	182,819,032	132.6–236.5 million	1,449,706	2,708,756	1.57	85.1
2086	projection	181,536,504	130.5–236.4 million	1,434,046	2,695,312	1.57	85.2
2087	projection	180,251,943	128.5–236.6 million	1,419,331	2,679,147	1.57	85.3
2088	projection	178,970,312	126.4–236.6 million	1,407,074	2,661,862	1.57	85.4
2089	projection	177,690,472	124.3–236.5 million	1,396,092	2,645,401	1.58	85.5
2090	projection	176,418,016	122.1–236.3 million	1,383,274	2,630,346	1.58	85.7
2091	projection	175,143,927	120.0–236.2 million	1,370,687	2,612,908	1.58	85.8
2092	projection	173,877,660	117.8–236.0 million	1,358,546	2,597,808	1.58	85.9
2093	projection	172,613,187	115.8–236.0 million	1,347,376	2,579,473	1.58	86.0
2094	projection	171,358,906	113.8–235.9 million	1,335,000	2,562,552	1.58	86.1
2095	projection	170,106,198	111.9–235.8 million	1,322,627	2,544,116	1.58	86.2
2096	projection	168,860,387	109.9–235.9 million	1,311,143	2,524,966	1.58	86.3
2097	projection	167,621,891	107.8–235.7 million	1,299,688	2,507,365	1.58	86.5
2098	projection	166,390,999	106.0–235.8 million	1,288,617	2,487,105	1.58	86.6
2099	projection	165,173,224	103.7–236.5 million	1,279,300	2,467,625	1.58	86.7
2100	projection	163,966,039	101.6–236.6 million	1,268,230	2,450,034	1.58	86.8

Show the numbers: Brazil, mid-2026, by single year of age

Brazil: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	1,266,280	1,214,340
1	1,281,040	1,228,520
2	1,296,220	1,243,370
3	1,310,840	1,257,900
4	1,326,680	1,273,390
5	1,343,670	1,289,940
6	1,377,910	1,322,970
7	1,421,690	1,365,000
8	1,440,750	1,383,380
9	1,436,460	1,379,360
10	1,453,520	1,395,800
11	1,473,390	1,415,050
12	1,465,530	1,407,800
13	1,459,650	1,402,430
14	1,462,920	1,405,940
15	1,467,000	1,410,560
16	1,470,510	1,414,910
17	1,474,100	1,419,990
18	1,485,510	1,433,370
19	1,504,310	1,454,290
20	1,522,880	1,475,150
21	1,533,800	1,488,780
22	1,535,400	1,493,510
23	1,550,300	1,511,150
24	1,578,880	1,542,230
25	1,605,110	1,571,680
26	1,628,550	1,598,880
27	1,647,010	1,621,430
28	1,649,360	1,628,380
29	1,636,550	1,620,080
30	1,625,120	1,612,880
31	1,611,650	1,603,200
32	1,598,460	1,592,820
33	1,588,590	1,586,060
34	1,588,610	1,589,850
35	1,599,330	1,604,360
36	1,611,880	1,620,910
37	1,625,070	1,638,740
38	1,636,960	1,655,440
39	1,650,800	1,673,820
40	1,659,190	1,686,670
41	1,659,390	1,691,030
42	1,656,290	1,692,340
43	1,646,600	1,688,120
44	1,626,020	1,673,850
45	1,597,030	1,650,590
46	1,561,690	1,620,310
47	1,522,640	1,585,380
48	1,481,380	1,546,990
49	1,438,450	1,506,730
50	1,395,440	1,466,490
51	1,353,970	1,428,130
52	1,320,690	1,398,300
53	1,289,900	1,370,780
54	1,254,280	1,338,310
55	1,218,730	1,305,860
56	1,184,750	1,274,990
57	1,155,300	1,249,130
58	1,134,290	1,232,550
59	1,119,620	1,223,030
60	1,104,230	1,212,780
61	1,084,830	1,198,380
62	1,059,960	1,178,160
63	1,026,750	1,148,910
64	986,886	1,112,560
65	944,674	1,073,800
66	901,067	1,033,720
67	855,362	991,248
68	808,008	946,530
69	760,732	901,410
70	714,160	856,478
71	668,391	811,931
72	623,316	767,809
73	578,558	723,954
74	533,902	680,042
75	489,477	635,484
76	448,526	592,494
77	402,848	541,116
78	354,270	485,118
79	311,658	435,530
80	277,366	388,659
81	248,878	348,701
82	220,367	314,112
83	193,233	280,986
84	167,817	249,697
85	143,414	218,885
86	120,818	189,688
87	100,038	161,997
88	80,952	135,436
89	64,441	111,608
90	50,374	90,613
91	38,957	72,665
92	29,970	57,508
93	22,650	44,400
94	16,730	33,269
95	12,061	24,136
96	8,493	17,000
97	5,828	11,596
98	3,870	7,608
99	2,480	4,802
100+	3,465	6,844

BRA · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Brazil, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

BRA · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Brazil

On the UN's projection, Brazil will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2033: 147,808,000 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 146,596,000.

100 aged 15–64

29 children

15 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: one orange square for each of 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023. Beneath them, teal for the children living alongside those 100 and violet for the people aged 65 or older.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 36 years: 2004–2039.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: 1950 on the left, 2100 on the right; coloured in the years with fewer than 50 dependants per 100 working-age people, grey in the rest, hatched where that is a projection.

How every country compares

BRA · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Brazil, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Brazil loses 215,132 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 25–29, at 40,646 a year more leaving than arriving.

one square = 5,000 people a year

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more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: each column is one age, youngest on the left. Above the line, in blue, are the ages gaining people; below it, in orange, the ages losing them. This is the UN's projection for 2020–2025 — the record of migration by age does not go back beyond 2020.

In the years that were counted, 1950–2023, the most it gained in one year was 21,666 (1998) and the most it lost was 261,539 (2010).

In 2024, 1,406,299 people living in Brazil had been born in another country, fewer than 1 of every 100 people there, against fewer than 1 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

BRA · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Brazil

Of every 100 babies born in Brazil in 2023, 13 had a mother under 20, 69 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 18 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 11 under 20 and 15 aged 35 or older.

1950
11 · 74 · 15

2023
13 · 69 · 18

2050 · projected
6 · 67 · 27

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: shrink a year's babies to 100 and colour each one by the age of its mother — that is a block. Under it, the same three groups as numbers, starting with the youngest mothers.

Babies born, 2023: 2,601,670
Average age when women have a baby: 27.8 years; 29.3 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 43; 93 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Brazil by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	8,646	17,122	30,525	13,466	2,814	176
15–19	269,226	494,128	761,383	316,046	105,832	21,065
20–24	712,603	1,099,836	1,080,264	626,831	335,350	133,031
25–29	674,509	936,914	786,380	650,363	480,539	351,586
30–34	435,880	573,845	483,454	534,165	526,527	438,839
35–39	265,213	330,121	243,689	349,228	402,518	255,006
40–44	96,163	129,565	66,363	105,758	133,015	63,441
45–49	14,145	21,141	7,061	5,813	7,066	5,086
50–54	532	831	120	0	0	0
All babies	2,476,917	3,603,503	3,459,239	2,601,670	1,993,661	1,268,230

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

BRA · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Brazil

Of the 72.4 years a baby born in Brazil in 2021 could expect, about 61.8 would be lived in full health (95% range 61.2–62.6). That leaves 10.6 years in less than full health, more than the world's 9.5: a longer life usually brings a longer stretch of illness near its end.

Women

63.4 in full health, 12.4 not: 75.8 years

Men

60.3 in full health, 8.7 not: 69.0 years

a year in full health a year in less than full health

How to read this: each square is a year of life, each row ten years; filled squares are years in full health, rounded to whole years.

Women: 63.4 healthy years of 75.8. Men: 60.3 of 69.0. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 64.5.

BRA · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Brazil

At the end of 2025, Brazil was hosting 948,151 people who had crossed a border into it, about 4 of every 1,000 people living there.

hosted from abroad948,151
Brazil nationals abroad72,978

stayed inside their own country crossed a border

How to read this: each square is 20,000 people, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Brazil living in another country, wherever they are.

In 2025, 75,585 people asked for asylum in Brazil for the first time; 21,205 people from Brazil asked for asylum in another country. Of every 100 people from Brazil whose claims were decided that year, 14 were given protection. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

BRA · of every 100 people

How people live in Brazil

Of every 100 people in Brazil in 2025, 54 lived in a city, 26 in a town or suburb and 20 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

Nearly everyone has electricity at home (2024). 15.5 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: one square for every hundredth person, coloured as the key shows. Because the rule behind the colours is the same everywhere, two countries' squares can be compared directly.

How the world's people live

BRA · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Brazil went in school

Of every 100 adults in Brazil in 2020, 8 never went to school and 44 finished upper secondary or went further.

8 never went to school 13 some primary 20 finished primary 15 finished lower secondary 31 finished upper secondary 13 studied after school

Compare two generations. Aged 60–64, 10.7 of every 100 women and 11.3 of every 100 men never went to school; aged 25–29, 2.5 and 3.3.

The middle projection has its working-age people most numerous in 2035; those among them who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2055.

How to read this: the row is the adults (25 and over) shrunk to 100 people, coloured by how far each went in school, least schooling on the left. The Wittgenstein Centre's count, 2020.

How far the world's people went in school

BRA · cities · 2025

Cities in Brazil

Brazil had 356 cities in 2025, home to 115.2 million people. The largest, São Paulo, holds 9 of every 100 people in Brazil.

São Paulo18,949,790
Rio de Janeiro9,500,336
Belo Horizonte4,162,814
Recife3,691,196
Fortaleza3,244,260
Salvador3,135,157
Curitiba2,475,352
Goiânia2,320,596
Manaus2,277,352
Belém2,180,454

All 62 cities in Brazil that reach 300,000 people

São Paulo 18,949,790
Rio de Janeiro 9,500,336
Belo Horizonte 4,162,814
Recife 3,691,196
Fortaleza 3,244,260
Salvador 3,135,157
Curitiba 2,475,352
Goiânia 2,320,596
Manaus 2,277,352
Belém 2,180,454
Porto Alegre 1,755,917
Sao Goncalo 1,679,246
Campinas 1,631,432
Brasília 1,521,148
São Luís 1,264,379
Vitória 1,226,500
Natal 1,089,473
João Pessoa 1,064,481
Santos 1,027,752
Maceió 1,023,645
Teresina 929,795
Aracaju 859,845
Campo Grande 833,403
Cuiabá 798,772
Sorocaba 689,775
Florianópolis 682,065
Ribeirao Preto 615,090
Uberlândia 613,434
Londrina 598,731
Valparaíso de Goiás 570,302
Sao Jose dos Campos 536,073
Joinville 534,074
Novo Hamburgo 533,686
Feira de Santana 529,185
Juiz de Fora 518,218
Maringá 473,708
Macapá 471,922
Jundiaí 465,531
Porto Velho 422,943
Petrolina 418,619
São José do Rio Preto 414,406
Americana 412,133
Volta Redonda 398,107
Caxias do Sul 383,774
Campina Grande 369,184
Colina de Laranjeiras 365,960
Boa Vista 360,361
Piracicaba 357,844
Montes Claros 355,651
Anápolis 354,576
Praia Grande 352,067
Bauru 351,405
Francisco Morato 346,105
Franca 337,878
Rio Branco 332,810
Gravataí 330,969
Canoas 325,022
Uberaba 312,745
Campos dos Goytacazes 310,590
Taubaté 310,170
Caruaru 299,805
Blumenau 234,982

How to read this: the 10 biggest cities here in 2025, drawn on a single scale so the bars can be compared. Each is a built-up area on the UN's rule rather than a city government's patch.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for Brazil are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UNHCR · country code lists · UN WUP 2025 · Wittgenstein Centre · WHO GHO · flag-icons · Natural Earth. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.