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  • Population......................................................................190,010,647*
    note: Brazil conducted a census in August 2000, which reported a population of 169,799,170; that figure was about 3.3% lower than projections by the US Census Bureau, and is close to the implied underenumeration of 4.6% for the 1991 census; estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2007 est.)
  • Population growth rate .............................................................1.008% (2007 est.)
  • Birth rate....................................................16.3 births/1,000 population (2007 est.)
  • Death rate...................................................6.19 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.)
  • Net migration rate...............................-0.03 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.)
  • Ethnic groups.......white 53.7%, mulatto (mixed white and black) 38.5%, black 6.2%, other (includes Japanese, Arab, Amerindian) 0.9%, unspecified 0.7% (2000 census)

Shaping Brazil: The Role of International Migration
South America's largest country has experienced waves of immigration and, more recently, emigration. But Brazil has not proactively addressed new migration patterns, including increases in illegal immigrants. Ernesto Friedrich Amaral of the University of Texas at Austin and Wilson Fusco of Universidade Estadual de Campinas report.

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Other Resources

Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE)
http://www.ibge.gov.br/english/default.php

National Immigration Council (Conselho Nacional de Imigração – in Portugese)
http://www.mte.gov.br/cni/default.asp

US Census Bureau International Data Base
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/

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