4. POPULATION
Birth rate: 17.48 births/1,000 population
Death rate: 6.38 deaths/1,000 population
Total population (inhabitants) : 205,716,890
(July 2012)
Age structure: 0-14 years: 26.2% ,15-64
years: 67%, 65 years and over: 6.7%
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6. MAIN CONSEQUENCES
It’s one of the most poblated countries of the world.
-Population: Decrease in 1500 by Portuguese people, plagues,
wars etc.
-1500-1700: population increase. Immigration of: 100.000
Portuguese people, slaves of Africa (work in plantation) etc.
-1700-1800: higher increase (600.000 portuguese, job in mines)
-1800-1900: high increase. After independence (European people)
-1900-1980: high decrease (deseases, forced jobs, mass transfers,
massacres etc.)
-Nowadays: population increase (protection and security gift by
Brasilian country)
13. After 1850 five million Europeans emigrated to Brazil
It is estimated that during the period 1821-1932, Brazil
received 4,431,000 European immigrants
After the First World War Portuguese were again the main group of immigrants