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.

As of October 2024, *********, a state-owned corporation in the ********* industry, was the largest public company in Brazil, with a market capitalization of nearly ** billion U.S. dollars. ***********, a Brazil-based *************** platform, was second in the ranking, with a market cap of ***** billion U.S. dollars. Brazilian financial services company ************* followed closely and came in third, amounting to almost ** billion U.S. dollars in market cap.

Correios, also known as Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telégrafos or by its acronym ECT, is one of the largest employers in Brazil. In 2022, the postal office services company based in Brasília employed around 88,500 people. Food manufacturer BRF, whose revenue in 2021 rounded 48 billion Brazilian reals, had a workforce of more than 96,000 workers.

Correios, the Brazilian Post The origin of postal services in Brazil dates back to the late XVII century, during colonial times. Until the invention of telephony, the post and the telegraph were the only ways of communication. Given the country's vast territory, these services were of the utmost importance for the development of the Brazilian economy. Correios is still nowadays one of the most revenue generating services companies in Brazil. The largest share of its workforce is made up of mail carriers and postal clerks.

Itaú, from São Paulo to the world In 2022, the Brazilian financial company Itaú Unibanco was the largest bank in Latin America. In that year, Itaú Unibanco owned assets that amounted to more than 2.3 trillion Brazilian reals. Formed in 2008 with the merger of Banco Itaú and Unibanco, the bank operates worldwide, having 3,244 branches just in Brazil that employ almost 100,000 people.

Population in the largest city (% of urban population) in Brazil was reported at 12.22 % in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Brazil - Population in the largest city - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on September of 2025.

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.;;

Armac Locação was the fastest-growing company in Brazil between 2020 and 2023. In that period, the company revenue registered a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of ***** percent. Desktop ranked second with **** percent, followed by Solides with **** percent.

About this dataset

Context

The dataset tabulates the Brazil population distribution across 18 age groups. It lists the population in each age group along with the percentage population relative of the total population for Brazil. The dataset can be utilized to understand the population distribution of Brazil by age. For example, using this dataset, we can identify the largest age group in Brazil.

Key observations

The largest age group in Brazil, IN was for the group of age 30 to 34 years years with a population of 683 (8.47%), according to the ACS 2019-2023 5-Year Estimates. At the same time, the smallest age group in Brazil, IN was the 80 to 84 years years with a population of 178 (2.21%). Source: U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) 2019-2023 5-Year Estimates

Content

When available, the data consists of estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) 2019-2023 5-Year Estimates

Age groups:

• Under 5 years
• 5 to 9 years
• 10 to 14 years
• 15 to 19 years
• 20 to 24 years
• 25 to 29 years
• 30 to 34 years
• 35 to 39 years
• 40 to 44 years
• 45 to 49 years
• 50 to 54 years
• 55 to 59 years
• 60 to 64 years
• 65 to 69 years
• 70 to 74 years
• 75 to 79 years
• 80 to 84 years
• 85 years and over

Variables / Data Columns

• Age Group: This column displays the age group in consideration
• Population: The population for the specific age group in the Brazil is shown in this column.
• % of Total Population: This column displays the population of each age group as a proportion of Brazil total population. Please note that the sum of all percentages may not equal one due to rounding of values.

Good to know

Margin of Error

Data in the dataset are based on the estimates and are subject to sampling variability and thus a margin of error. Neilsberg Research recommends using caution when presening these estimates in your research.

Custom data

If you do need custom data for any of your research project, report or presentation, you can contact our research staff at research@neilsberg.com for a feasibility of a custom tabulation on a fee-for-service basis.

Inspiration

Neilsberg Research Team curates, analyze and publishes demographics and economic data from a variety of public and proprietary sources, each of which often includes multiple surveys and programs. The large majority of Neilsberg Research aggregated datasets and insights is made available for free download at https://www.neilsberg.com/research/.

Recommended for further research

This dataset is a part of the main dataset for Brazil Population by Age. You can refer the same here

At the end of 2024, Nu Holdings secured the position of Brazil's largest bank by market capitalization. The neobank achieved a market cap of ***** billion U.S. dollars, narrowly surpassing Itaú Unibanco, which ranked second. Banco Santander held the third position with a market value of ***** billion U.S. dollars.

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 September of 2025.

Violence has harmful effects on individuals and society. This is especially true in Latin America, a region that stands out globally for its high homicide rate. Building on research on subnational politics, democratization, and an inter-disciplinary literature that seeks to understand sources of violence, we examine the effect of municipal politics on homicide rates in Brazil while controlling for conventional socio-structural accounts. Specifically, we test the effect of four key political variables – party identification of mayors, partisan alignment of mayors and governors, electoral competition, and voter participation – and examine the locally varying effect of these variables with geographically weighted regressions (GWR). Our emphasis on political explanations of criminal violence is a rare departure from dominant accounts of violent crime, suggesting comparisons with the literature on political violence, and the spatial approach allows an analysis of the territorially uneven effect of political variables. The results show the statistical significance, direction, and magnitude of key political factors vary substantially across Brazil’s 5562 municipalities, showcasing the uneven effect of predictors of violence across space, and generating new hypothesis regarding the conditional effect of key predictors. In the time period examined (2007–2012), the largest left party in Brazil, Workers' Party (PT), had a beneficial effect, reducing violence in large parts of Brazil, the center party that held most local governments (PMDB) had a harmful effect in certain areas of Brazil, and the largest center-right party (PSDB) had mixed effects – helpful in some parts of Brazil and harmful in others. These results help us understand key features of the relationship between Brazilian politics and public security across different parts of the country, illuminating the political geography of violence in the region's largest country.

Graph and download economic data for NASDAQ Brazil Health Care Large Mid Cap NTR Index (NASDAQNQBR20LMN) from 2019-03-18 to 2025-08-25 about mid cap, market cap, healthcare, NASDAQ, Brazil, large, health, and indexes.

Income share held by highest 10% in Brazil was reported at 40.8 % in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Brazil - Income share held by highest 10% - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on September of 2025.

These companies were chosen as Brazil's best companies to work for according to a study carried out by LinkedIn. Among the best employers included in the ranking in 2021, the meat manufacturer JBS had the largest workforce, with up to 145,000 employees. Banco Bradesco, which employed almost 89,600 workers, was one of the Brazilian banks featured, along with Itaú Unibanco, and Banco Santander. Service companies Correios and Atento were among the Brazilian companies with the largest number of employees.

There were 151 900 000 Facebook users in Brazil in April 2021, which accounted for 68.3% of its entire population. The majority of them were women - 54%. People aged 25 to 34 were the largest user group (43 000 000). The highest difference between men and women occurs within people aged 35 to 44, where women lead by 14 000 000.

Graph and download economic data for Nasdaq Brazil Industrials Large Mid Cap TR Index (NASDAQNQBR50LMT) from 2006-09-29 to 2025-08-08 about mid cap, NASDAQ, market cap, Brazil, large, industry, and indexes.

Graph and download economic data for NASDAQ Brazil Financials Large Mid Cap NTR Index (NASDAQNQBR30LMN) from 2003-03-31 to 2025-09-11 about mid cap, market cap, NASDAQ, Brazil, large, financial, and indexes.

As of July 2022, Accor was by a wide margin the hotel chain with the highest number of rooms in Brazil, counting nearly **** thousand. The French hotel chain was followed by the U.S. American Choice, which had more than ** thousand rooms in the South American country in that same month. These two hotel chains had a combined number of *** hotel establishments in Brazil.

In 2023, LATAM was the leading domestic airline in Brazil, accounting for nearly **** percent of the total number of passenger kilometers in the country. Azul Linhas Aéreas followed in the list that year with ** percent of the market share.

In 2024, Itaú Unibanco was the largest bank in Brazil based on total assets, with total assets exceeding *** billion U.S. dollars. Banco do Brasil ranked second, with assets amounting to approximately ***** billion U.S. dollars. The total value of assets of Brazilian banks added up to roughly *** trillion U.S. dollars in 2023, a figure that has been consistently increasing since 2002. Brazilian banking network Brazil was the country with the highest number of bank branches in Latin America, with ***** branches in 2023. However, in terms of accessibility, the South American country lags some regional counterparts. In 2023, the density of bank branches in Brazil reached only ** per 100,000 adults; in comparison to ** bank branches per 100,000 adults in Mexico. Digital banks in Brazil With the use of financial technology increasing around the world, online banking is becoming ever more popular, and the Brazilian market is no exception. In fact, Brazil is home to one of the leading digital banks worldwide, Nubank. Nubank's active users increased sharply in 2024, exceeding ** million, and its operating revenue reached over ** billion U.S. dollars.

With a total of ***** units, Cacau show was the largest franchise brand in Brazil in 2024. O Boticário is one of the country's major beauty companies and followed second with ***** units. McDonald's followed third on the list that year, with more than ***** franchised outlets across Brazil.