In 2024, approximately 11.9 million people lived in São Paulo, making it the largest municipality in Brazil and one of the most populous cities in the world. The homonymous state of São Paulo was also the most populous federal entity in the country. Brazil's cities Brazil is home to two large metropolises: São Paulo with close to 11.9 million inhabitants, and Rio de Janeiro with around 6.7 million inhabitants. It also contains a number of smaller but well-known cities, such as Brasília, Salvador, Belo Horizonte, and many others, which report between 2 and 3 million inhabitants each. As a result, the country's population is primarily urban, with nearly 88 percent of inhabitants living in cities. While smaller than some of the other cities, Brasília was chosen to be the capital because of its relatively central location. The city is also well-known for its modernist architecture and utopian city plan, which is quite controversial - criticized by many and praised by others. Sports venues capitals A number of Brazil’s medium-sized and large cities were chosen as venues for the 2014 World Cup, and the 2015 Summer Olympics also took place in Rio de Janeiro. Both of these events required large sums of money to support infrastructure and enhance mobility within a number of different cities across the country. Billions of dollars were spent on the 2014 World Cup, which went primarily to stadium construction and renovation but also to a number of different mobility projects. Other short-term spending on infrastructure for the World Cup and the Rio Olympic Games was estimated at 50 billion U.S. dollars. While these events have poured a lot of money into urban infrastructure, a number of social and economic problems within the country remain unsolved.

In 2025, approximately 23 million people lived in the São Paulo metropolitan area, making it the biggest in Latin America and the Caribbean and the sixth most populated in the world. The homonymous state of São Paulo was also the most populous federal entity in the country. The second place for the region was Mexico City with 22.75 million inhabitants. Brazil's cities Brazil is home to two large metropolises, only counting the population within the city limits, São Paulo had approximately 11.45 million inhabitants, and Rio de Janeiro around 6.21 million inhabitants. It also contains a number of smaller, but well known cities such as Brasília, Salvador, Belo Horizonte and many others, which report between 2 and 3 million inhabitants each. As a result, the country's population is primarily urban, with nearly 88 percent of inhabitants living in cities. Mexico City Mexico City's metropolitan area ranks sevenths in the ranking of most populated cities in the world. Founded over the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan in 1521 after the Spanish conquest as the capital of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, the city still stands as one of the most important in Latin America. Nevertheless, the preeminent economic, political, and cultural position of Mexico City has not prevented the metropolis from suffering the problems affecting the rest of the country, namely, inequality and violence. Only in 2023, the city registered a crime incidence of 52,723 reported cases for every 100,000 inhabitants and around 24 percent of the population lived under the poverty line.

Brazil BR: Population in Largest City data was reported at 22,806,704.000 Person in 2024. This records an increase from the previous number of 22,619,736.000 Person for 2023. Brazil BR: Population in Largest City data is updated yearly, averaging 15,288,036.000 Person from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2024, with 65 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 22,806,704.000 Person in 2024 and a record low of 4,493,182.000 Person in 1960. Brazil BR: Population in Largest City data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Brazil – Table BR.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Population in largest city is the urban population living in the country's largest metropolitan area.;United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects.;;

Population in largest city in Brazil was reported at 22806704 in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Brazil - Population in largest city - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on November of 2025.

Actual value and historical data chart for Brazil Population In The Largest City Percent Of Urban Population

Context

The dataset extracted from the website of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) contains all demographic, economic, geographic and human development information on Brazilian cities.

Content

There was no complete dataset to download all this information. So, I did a webscrapping that entered all the pages of each Brazilian cities and got all the information available. After that, I consolidated everything into a single file and now share with you to serve as research and studies of Brazil's performance on development, economics, and other topics.

This file contains 14 columns and 5571 rows (with headers):

• IBGECode - ID of the cities
• LocalCidade - Name of the cities
• LocalUF - State initials of the cities
• LocalEstado - Full name of city states
• RegiaoBrasil - IBGE's Region for each city
• Latitude - city ​​latitude
• Longitude - city ​​longitude
• Gentilico - name given to people born in the city
• PopEstimada_2018 - Population estimated in 2018
• PopCenso 2010 - Population in 2010
• IDHM - HDI of each city
• ReceitasRealizadas_2014 - Revenues realized by cities
• DespesasEmpenhadas_2014 - Expenditure incurred by cities
• Pib_2014 - GDP by cities

Acknowledgements

I thank my co-workers who helped me develop web scrapping and distribute the consolidated information to all of you.

Inspiration

Questions to be answered about this dataset:

1. What is the forecast of the GDP of each city in Brazil?
2. Can we group the cities by some specific division related to HDI or GDP?
3. What will be the total population of the Brazilian in the South of the Country in 2020?

And so on.

Brazil BR: Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data was reported at 12.223 % in 2024. This records an increase from the previous number of 12.203 % for 2023. Brazil BR: Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data is updated yearly, averaging 12.971 % from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2024, with 65 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 15.235 % in 1980 and a record low of 11.954 % in 2005. Brazil BR: Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Brazil – Table BR.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Population in largest city is the percentage of a country's urban population living in that country's largest metropolitan area.;United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects.;Weighted average;

View yearly updates and historical trends for Brazil Population in the Largest City. Source: World Bank. Track economic data with YCharts analytics.

This horizontal bar chart displays population (people) by capital city using the aggregation sum in Brazil. The data is filtered where the date is 2021. The data is about countries per year.

The share of urban population in Brazil amounted to 87.79 percent in 2023. In a steady upward trend, the share rose by 41.65 percentage points from 1960.

According to an online survey as of June 2024, the majority of vegetarians registered in the state of São Paulo lived in its homonymous capital, the city of São Paulo, where more than four thousand people identified themselves as vegetarian, vegan or supporter thereof. The second largest population was found in Campinas, with 545 respondents.

Context

This dataset has information about brazilian cities.

Content

• city: the name of the city
• lat: the latitude of each city
• lng: the longitude of each city
• country: the country of each city (all Brazil in this case)
• iso2: country code (BR)
• admin: state of each city
• capital: wheter the city is a capital or not
• population: amount of inhabitants of each city
• population_proper: area contained within city limits

This statistic shows the age structure in Brazil from 2013 to 2023. In 2023 about 19.94 percent of Brazil's total population were aged 0 to 14 years. Population of Brazil Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world by area and population and the largest in both South America and the Latin American region. With a total population of more than 200 million inhabitants in 2013, Brazil also ranks fifth in terms of population numbers. Brazil is a founding member of the United Nations, the G20, CPLP, and a member of the BRIC countries. BRIC is an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, and China, the four major emerging market countries. The largest cities in Brazil are São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Salvador. São Paulo alone reports over 11.1 million inhabitants. Due to a steady increase in the life expectancy in Brazil, the average age of the population has also rapidly increased. From 1950 until 2015, the average age of the population increased by an impressive 12 years; in 2015, the average age of the population in Brazil was reported to be around 31 years. As a result of the increasing average age, the percentage of people aged between 15 and 64 years has also increased: In 2013, about 68.4 percent of the population in Brazil was aged between 15 and 64 years.

This bar chart displays male population (people) by capital city using the aggregation sum in Brazil. The data is filtered where the date is 2021. The data is about countries per year.

Mapped São Paulo into an easily readable JSON file, since I couldn't find any on the internet. Feel free to use it for whichever projects you may have ;)

Mapeei São Paulo num arquivo JSON, já que não achei nada do tipo na internet. Sinta-se livre pra usar em quaisquer projetos que tiver ;)

This dataset collects information on municipal expenditures, water-sewerage-and trash collection service coverage, and basic socioeconomic characteristics at municipal level, for two census waves (2000; 2010) for all municipalities of Brazil, Chile, and Mexico.

Abstract This paper compares the occupational structure of cities in Brazil and United States aiming to evaluate the extent to which the economic structure of these urban agglomerations is associated with the different stages of development, specifically when comparing a rich country with a developing one. Using a harmonized occupational database and microdata from the Brazilian 2010 Demographic Census and the U.S. American Community Survey (2008-2012), results show that Brazilian cities have a stronger connection between population size, both with occupational structure and human capital distribution, than the one found for cities in the United States. These findings suggest a stronger primacy of large cities in Brazil’s urban network and a more unequal distribution of economic activity across cities when compared to USA, indicating a strong correlation between development and occupational structure.

According to a 2024 survey, the majority of the messenger app users in Brazil lived in large cities with populations between 100 thousand to * million inhabitants. In contrast, most of the users of Snapchat and iMessage lived in megacities with over * million inhabitants. Moreover, besides being used by more than ** percent of the country's population, WhatsApp users were the most representative of which type of community where messenger app users lived.

According to a 2024 survey, the largest proportion of social media users in Brazil lived in large cities with populations between 100 thousand to one million inhabitants. This type of urban area accounted for around ********* of all social media users. However, most of the users of Tumblr and Reddit lived in megacities with over five million inhabitants. Moreover, the audience bases of Facebook, Instagram and YouTube were the most representative of the type of community where social media platforms users lived, besides these being the most popular networks in the country.

According to an online survey as of June 2024, the number of self-identified vegetarians, vegans and supporters in Brazil was highest in the city of São Paulo, with more than 4.2 thousand respondents. The second largest population was found in Rio de Janeiro, with nearly two thousand people. In 2018, 14 percent of respondents in a survey in Brazil identified as vegetarians.