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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