Demographics

Total Population

203,429,773 (July 2011 est.)

Age structure

0-14 years: 26.2% (male 27,219,651/female 26,180,040)
15-64 years: 67% (male 67,524,642/female 68,809,357)
65 years and over: 6.7% (male 5,796,433/female 7,899,650) (2011 est.)

Population growth rate

1.134% (2011 est.)

Birth rate

17.79 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)

Death rate

6.36 deaths/1,000 population (July 2011 est.)

Urbanization

urban population: 87% of total population (2010)
rate of urbanization: 1.1% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)

Infant mortality rate

total: 21.17 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 24.63 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 17.53 deaths/1,000 live births (2011 est.)

Life expectancy

total population: 72169,872,855; that figure was about 3.8% lower than projections by the US Census Bureau, and is close to the implied underenumeration of 4.6% for the 1991 census

.53 years
male: 68.97 years
female: 76.27 years (2011 est.)

Ethnic groups

white 53.7%, mulatto (mixed white and black) 38.5%, black 6.2%, other (includes Japanese, Arab, Amerindian) 0.9%, unspecified 0.7% (2000 census)

Religions

Roman Catholic (nominal) 73.6%, Protestant 15.4%, Spiritualist 1.3%, Bantu/voodoo 0.3%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.2%, none 7.4% (2000 census)

Languages

Portuguese (official and most widely spoken language)
note: less common languages include Spanish (border areas and schools), German, Italian, Japanese, English, and a large number of minor Amerindian languages

Literacy

definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 88.6%
male: 88.4%
female: 88.8% (2004 est.)

School life expectancy

total: 14 years
male: 14 years
female: 14 years (2008

Expenditures:

Education: 5.08% of GDP (2007)

Health: 9% of GDP (2009)

Analysis: According to the Brazilian census most of Brazil’s population was born from the baby boomer area. This indicates that Brazil will need to spend a lot of money in the future taking care of their older generation. We can see that Brazil is a developing country. The birth rates are relatively high and the death rates are low. The infant mortality is fairly high which shows  that Brazil isn’t fully developed yet. All of this is probably due to the fact that Brazil spends 9% of it total GDP on the healthcare industry.  Brazil is becoming a lot more urban. This is because a lot of the population looks to cities for modern and new opportunities. However there is a lack of jobs in the cities which means that the growth of the slums in Brazil has increased. Brazil was colonized by Portugual in the 1500's. This is the reason that more than half the population is white and mulatto, speaks portugese and  is Catholic. Brazil's educational expenditure attests to it's moderately high literacy rate. This is another supporting factor to Brazil's status as a developing nation.