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.

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

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.

Florianópolis and Recife were the cities with the highest hotel occupancy rate in Brazil in 2024, surpassing ** percent. Out of the 15 listed cities, only one had an occupancy rate below ** percent.

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

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

Context

While working with geographical data in my internship, I had to analyze information regarding the cities of Brazil, using their respective latitudes and longitudes. The data was obtained from varied sources.

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Schema: 1. cd_ibge ("IBGE" code of the City) 2. nm_municipio (name of each City) 3. nm_uf (name of each State) 4. cd_uf (State name abbreviation) 5. bl_capital (boolean indicating if the city is the State capital or not) 6. regiao_uf (region of the State) 7. lat_municipio (latitude of the City) 8. long_municipio (longitude of the City) 9. lat_long_municipio (lat/long of the City) 10. lat_central_uf (latitude of the State - centralized) 11. long_central_uf (longitude of the State - centralized) 12. lat_long_central_uf (lat/long of the State - centralized)

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;

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A large chain store requires making the decision to create new distribution hosts and shut down hosts that do not generate business value. Nothing better than Machine Learning to support this decision making.

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This Dataset contains the main cities in Brazil and this network is already in all of its regional capitals (capital = admin).

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.

Comprehensive socio-economic dataset for Brazil including population demographics, economic indicators, geographic data, and social statistics. This dataset covers key metrics such as GDP, population density, area, capital city, and regional classifications.

Graph and download economic data for Geographical Outreach: Number of Branches in 3 Largest Cities, Excluding Headquarters, for Commercial Banks for Brazil (BRAFCBODCLNUM) from 2005 to 2015 about branches, Brazil, banks, and depository institutions.

The statistic presents a ranking of the leading cities in Brazil in 2018, based on advertising spending. Brazil's largest city São Paulo ranked first, with more than ** billion Brazilian reals (approximately ************ U.S. dollars at December 31, 2018 exchange rates) invested in advertising in 2018.

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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.

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.

Dataset

This dataset was created by Natanael Domingos

Released under MIT

Contents

Brazil Motorcycle Retail Sales: by Capital City: Southeast: Rio de Janeiro data was reported at 16,018.000 Unit in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 16,223.000 Unit for 2016. Brazil Motorcycle Retail Sales: by Capital City: Southeast: Rio de Janeiro data is updated yearly, averaging 24,026.500 Unit from Dec 2006 (Median) to 2017, with 12 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 31,618.000 Unit in 2014 and a record low of 16,018.000 Unit in 2017. Brazil Motorcycle Retail Sales: by Capital City: Southeast: Rio de Janeiro data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Brazilian Association of Motorcycle, Moped, and Bicycle Manufacturers. The data is categorized under Brazil Premium Database’s Automobile Sector – Table BR.RAM009: Motorcycle Retail Sales: by Capital City. Two Wheels: Tricycle, quad biking, Motorcycle and Moped.

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.