Demography of Brazil

Demography THE population of Brazil is very several, having participated in its formation several people and etnias. The base of the Brazilian people is the Portuguese element, that colonized the country after 1500. Until the independence, in 1822, Portugal was the only European nation that settled down with success in Brazil, and great part of the Brazilian culture has its root in that of Portugal. Neerlandeses (to see Dutch Invasions of Brazil) and French (to see França Antártica) they also tried to colonize Brazil in the century XVII, but its presence lasted just some decades. Women of the North brasileiroA population indigenous original of Brazil (among 3-5 million) it was largely exterminated or assimilated by the Portuguese population. Since the beginning of the colonization, the mixture among Portuguese and native it was common. Brazil has a great black population, descending of the African slaves brought to the country of the century XVI a century XIX. More than 3 million Africans were taken to Brazil until the end of the slaves' traffic, in 1850. They were mainly from Angola, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Costa of the Ivory and São Tomé and Prince. The African population in Brazil was mixed in wide scale with the Portuguese, creating a great mestizo population in the country. Members of OlodumNo century XIX, the Brazilian government stimulated the immigration of Europeans to substitute the labor slave. The first immigrants no-lusos the if they establish in Brazil they were the Swisses, in 1819. In 1869, the first group of Polish immigrants arrived in Brazil. However, the immigration in mass of Europeans to Brazil only began after 1875, when the immigration coming of Italy, Portugal and Spain grew. In agreement with the Immigrant's Memorial, between 1870 and 1953, they entered in Brazil about 5,5 million immigrants, being the Italians (1.550.000), Portuguese (1.470.000), Spanish (650.000), German (210.000), Japanese (190.000), Poles (120.000) and 650.000 of several other nationalities. Brazil has the largest population of Italian origin I/you had gone of to Italy, with 25 million descendants of Italian. Those immigrants settled down above all in the states of the South and Southeast. The descendants of Germans form great part of the population of the South of BrasilComeçando in the beginning of the century XX, Brazil also received a great number of Japanese immigrants, that went mainly to São Paulo. They constitute the largest population of Asian origin of the country today. Japanese and resident descendants in Brazil (1,5 million) they are out the largest Japanese population of Japan. It also happened a significant immigration coming of Middle East (Lebanon and Syria) THE Brazilian population is above all concentrated in the coast, with a smaller demographic density in the interior. Races and etnias in agreement with the census of 2000 accomplished by the IBGE, the Brazilian people solemnity-were classified as: white (53,7%), brown (38,5%), black (6,2%), yellow (0,5%), indigenous (0,4%) and no-specified (0,7%). The racial classification in Brazil is based above all on the color of the skin and in the physical appearance, and not in the ancestralidade. A recent genetic study accomplished by the Federal University of Minas Gerais[2], he/she reveals that most of the Brazilians possesses a combination of indigenous ancestralidade (mainly tupi and Guarani, among other), European (mainly Portuguese, Italian, Spanish and German) and African (mainly Bantu and Iorubá), with a minority of Asian origin (mainly Japanese) and Arabic (Lebanese and Syrian). In agreement with the Brazilian Constitution of 1988, racism is a crime inafiançável and it is punished with prison. Brazilian reflects the several people that constitute the demography of the country: indigenous, European, African, Asian, Arabs etc. As a result of the intense miscigenation of people, a peculiar cultural reality appeared, that synthesizes the several cultures that formed the country. Although it is a country lusófono and have inherited the Portuguese settlers' culture, the reality in the several areas of Brazil it reflects the immense ethnic-cultural diversity of the country. In the northeast, nomeadamente in Bahia and in Maranhão, they are common the parties, the ritos and the rhythms of the African tradition; in the north of the Country, the folklore and the indigenous cookery; in the south, the European traditions, of the which deserve prominence the German and the Italian, having, same, some of them that, having already disappeared at its origin countries, they only subsist in Brazil Television audience Research done by IBOPE Globo: 49,9% SBT: 20,0% Record: 15,5% Members of the Bandeiras: 6,9% Rede TV: 3,4% Migrations recent international Migrations in Brazil internal Migrations in Brasil Idiomas Portuguese NatalO is the official language and spoken by the whole population. Brazil is the Portuguese-speaking of America only country, giving it a different cultural identity in relation to the other countries of the continent. The Portuguese is the only spoken language and written official from Brazil, with some variations in the colloquial language in agreement with the area. It is the language used in the teaching institutions, in the communication means and in the business. The language spoken in Brazil is partly different from that spoken in Portugal and in the other countries lusófonos. The Portuguese from Brazil and the European Portuguese didn't develop in an uniform way, having some differences in the phonetics and in the spelling, although the differences among the two variants don't commit the mutual understanding. Minority languages in spite of the Portuguese to be the maternal language of 98% of the Brazilians, several other minority languages are spoken in the day-to-day in the vast Brazilian territory. It leaves of those languages they are indigenous languages, spoken above all in the North Area of Brazil. The spoken languages are of the log Tupi-Guarani. To the whole, they are spoken about 180 indigenous languages in Brazil, even so, many of those languages are in serious extinction risk. Other languages spoken in healthy Brazil among the little communities of immigrants' descendants that got to preserve its languages, mainly in the South of the Country. Most of those communities is speakers of German dialects, prevailing Riograndenser Hunsrückisch, although others speak Germanic, as the pomerano, still survive in more restricted communities. Italian and, mainly, the language vêneta (in the case the variant talian) still possue concentrated speakers in the mountains gaúchas. Japanese has speakers above all in the colonies of São Paulo, mainly in the Freedom. In the census of 2000, two million Brazilians declared approximately to have as maternal language a language that is not the Portuguese. German was declared as maternal language by 1,5 million Brazilians; Italian for 500 thousand, Japanese for 400 thousand and Korean for 37 thousand. Those minorities linguistics are in its bilingual largest part, that is to say, they speak Portuguese together to the language of immigrant origin. Though, due to the fast assimilation, the number of immigrants' descendants that you/they still speak the ancestors' language it is in decline, mainly among the newest generations, that usually learn primarily the Portuguese language. Religion Statue of Cristo Redentor, Rio of JaneiroQuase 3 in each 4 Brazilians, or 74% of the population, they are Catholic. That does the largest Catholic nation of the world of Brazil.
The number of Protestants has been growing quickly, presenting 15,4%, or almost 1 in each 6.
About 7% of the population it doesn't profess any religion.
Followers of the spiritism understand 1,3%.
Followers of religions of African origin (as candomblé and umbanda) they represent around 0,3% of the population.
The Brazilian Jewish community has 160 thousand members, and the Asian religions (xintoísmo, Buddhism, Seicho-knot-Ie etc) they are followed for 300 thousand people. Islamismo is followed by 30 thousand people.