The population of Brazil reached 189.6 million and will cease to grow in 30 years time when it's expected to total 220 million inhabitants according to a report from the Brazilian Geography and Statistics Institute, IBGE.
"Thirty years from now the Brazilian population will cease to grow," said Luiz Antonio Pinto de Oliveira, head of the Population and Social indicators department from IBGE.
Oliveira said the current rate of children per woman is 2 but will fall to 1.5 in the next thirty years.
"International experience indicates there's not much chance of further growth from then on" because cultural and economic trends change as population grows.
However the 189.6 million should become 190 million by next October. This is because population expansion in the last seven years has averaged 2.3 million annually equivalent to 1.21%.
The current 189.6 million Brazilians are distributed in 5.565 municipalities. IBGE is mandated by law to annually update population estimates, which helps among other things to determine income distribution and poverty areas and pockets.
The states with the largest population are São Paulo, 41 million; Minas Gerais, 19.8 million; Rio de Janeiro, 15.8 million and Bahia, 14.5 million.
As to the cities, São Paulo leads with 10.9 million followed by Rio do Janeiro, 6.1 million; Salvador, Bahia, 2.9 million and the capital Brasília, 2.5 million.
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written by Ric, September 03, 2008
written by AUGUSTUS, September 04, 2008
Yet, presuming all the right steps are miraculously taken and favorable conditions permit, the nation would have to start dealing with this inevitable issue, which would invariably emerge in the wake of significant periods of continued prosperity... Such a remarkable (and theoretical) scenario would indubitably represent an astonishing event to witness! Pity that I could never consider it possible to include myself among the few likely future witnesses who are currently alive...
written by forrest allen brown, September 04, 2008
took into events such as people from the north and some of thoes in the south
that will have 4 to 7 kids .
sence for a woman to have her tubes tyed or have her baby maker cut out
is a long proess that she has to under take .and her husban has some what the final say so ?
think about it you can have a sex change but you cannot stop giving birth
under the law !!!!!!!
written by dnbaiacu, September 05, 2008
think about it you can have a sex change but you cannot stop giving birth
under the law !!!!!!!
A law to deliberately keep the average person poor and in a state of chaos. The regime KNOWS exactly what it is doing. The state is only partially to blame. Under laws like this it is even more important to having family planning. Be sexually responsible. If one feels it is their "right" to have sex without contraceptives. If the use of condoms is NOT an option for whatever pseudo-macho reason, if you keep recycling poverty throughout your descendency, it is ultimately YOUR problem.
If people would just WAKE UP!
because they will have money and medical paid by
the working brazilian people
welcom to the first world