When you're thinking about moving to Brazil, you'll likely be wondering about the population and steets of the city you're interested in. Brazil is a huge and diverse country, and its population is quite diverse, too. While Brazilians of European descent comprise one-half of the city's population, you're likely to come across some Afro-Indian and Asian ancestry, too.
Traditionally, the population of Brazil has been concentrated along the coast. Although Brazil's interior implies a rural area, the country has seen a number of inland cities, especially since the rubber and gold booms in the eighteenth century. After that, however, the real push to populate the heartland of the country began in the late 1950s with the construction of the new national capital, Sao Paulo.
The country is home to a wide variety of indigenous people, including the Kaiowa and the Guarani. In fact, Brazil has the most uncontacted native people in the world. At the time of the Portuguese invasion, an estimated 2.5 million Brazilian Indians lived in the country. During the following years, their numbers began to dwindle. Warfare, displacement, and the introduction of European diseases, which wiped out their immunity, caused the population to shrink rapidly. By the mid-2050s, only 120,000 of the original population remained.
Although Brazilian women are increasingly entering the workforce and choosing to delay childbearing, the country's birth rate has dropped significantly. In 1950, Brazilian women had over four children each, but by the end of the twenty-first century, that number had dropped to 1.75 per woman. As the country's population ages, its birth rate will drop even further, leaving more elders in the country and an increased mortality rate.