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.

Brazil BR: Urban Population data was reported at 185,356,223.000 Person in 2023. This records an increase from the previous number of 184,133,782.000 Person for 2022. Brazil BR: Urban Population data is updated yearly, averaging 114,857,069.000 Person from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2023, with 64 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 185,356,223.000 Person in 2023 and a record low of 33,399,157.000 Person in 1960. Brazil BR: 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. Urban population refers to people living in urban areas as defined by national statistical offices. It is calculated using World Bank population estimates and urban ratios from the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects. Aggregation of urban and rural population may not add up to total population because of different country coverages.;World Bank staff estimates based on the United Nations Population Division's World Urbanization Prospects: 2018 Revision.;Sum;

Actual value and historical data chart for Brazil Urban Population Percent Of Total

Historical dataset showing Brazil urban population by year from 1960 to 2023.

Brazil BR: Population Living in Slums: % of Urban Population data was reported at 14.897 % in 2016. This stayed constant from the previous number of 14.897 % for 2014. Brazil BR: Population Living in Slums: % of Urban Population data is updated yearly, averaging 21.511 % from Dec 2000 (Median) to 2016, with 9 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 34.740 % in 2000 and a record low of 14.897 % in 2016. Brazil BR: Population Living in Slums: % 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 living in slums is the proportion of the urban population living in slum households. A slum household is defined as a group of individuals living under the same roof lacking one or more of the following conditions: access to improved water, access to improved sanitation, sufficient living area, housing durability, and security of tenure, as adopted in the Millennium Development Goal Target 7.D. The successor, the Sustainable Development Goal 11.1.1, considers inadequate housing (housing affordability) to complement the above definition of slums/informal settlements.;United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT);Weighted average;

Brazil BR: Urban Population: % of Total Population data was reported at 87.788 % in 2023. This records an increase from the previous number of 87.555 % for 2022. Brazil BR: Urban Population: % of Total Population data is updated yearly, averaging 75.067 % from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2023, with 64 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 87.788 % in 2023 and a record low of 46.139 % in 1960. Brazil BR: Urban Population: % of Total 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. Urban population refers to people living in urban areas as defined by national statistical offices. The data are collected and smoothed by United Nations Population Division.;United Nations Population Division. World Urbanization Prospects: 2018 Revision.;Weighted average;

Actual value and historical data chart for Brazil Urban Population Growth Annual Percent

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

The majority of population exposed to landslides and floods in Brazil lives in the Southeast region. The number of people estimated to live under risk of mudslides, floods and flash floods in the Brazilian Southeast amounted to around 3.65 million, according to 2019 estimates. In that same region, over 1.2 million households were deemed at risk of these natural disasters. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with most land at risk of landslides.

This scatter chart displays urban population (people) against methane emissions (Mt of CO2 equivalent) in Brazil. The data is about countries per year.

Brazil BR: Rural Population data was reported at 26,429,509.000 Person in 2023. This records a decrease from the previous number of 26,795,765.000 Person for 2022. Brazil BR: Rural Population data is updated yearly, averaging 38,546,226.000 Person from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2023, with 64 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 42,653,748.000 Person in 1973 and a record low of 26,429,509.000 Person in 2023. Brazil BR: Rural 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. Rural population refers to people living in rural areas as defined by national statistical offices. It is calculated as the difference between total population and urban population. Aggregation of urban and rural population may not add up to total population because of different country coverages.;World Bank staff estimates based on the United Nations Population Division's World Urbanization Prospects: 2018 Revision.;Sum;

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.;;

Actual value and historical data chart for Brazil Urban Population

This dataset is about countries per year in Brazil. It has 64 rows. It features 4 columns: country, armed forces personnel, and urban population.

This scatter chart displays female population (people) against urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total population) in Brazil. The data is about countries per year.

Brazil BR: Urban Population Growth data was reported at 0.662 % in 2023. This records an increase from the previous number of 0.632 % for 2022. Brazil BR: Urban Population Growth data is updated yearly, averaging 2.672 % from Dec 1961 (Median) to 2023, with 63 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 5.125 % in 1961 and a record low of 0.632 % in 2022. Brazil BR: Urban Population Growth 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. Urban population refers to people living in urban areas as defined by national statistical offices. It is calculated using World Bank population estimates and urban ratios from the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects.;World Bank staff estimates based on the United Nations Population Division's World Urbanization Prospects: 2018 Revision.;Weighted average;

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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.

Data for Good Meta. High resolution population estimates for Brazil. Includes total population, men, women, women of reproductive age, elderly, youth, and children subgroups. Creative Commons Attribute International License.

To facilitate population data retrieval across scale, we segment spatial coverage into equal sized tiles. GPU enabled spatial join via RapidsAI was employed to assign population information with each vector tile.

Reference: Facebook Connectivity Lab and Center for International Earth Science Information Network - CIESIN - Columbia University. 2016. High Resolution Settlement Layer (HRSL). Source imagery for HRSL © 2016 DigitalGlobe. Accessed 7 April 2023.