The Inequalities in Population Distribution in Brazil

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The Inequalities in Population Distribution in Brazil Brazil in terms of population distribution is exceedingly varied and uneven. It has the sixth largest population in the world has 175 million inhabitants. The people of Brazil have 8,511,965 square kilometres that they could potentially occupy. However 90% of people are living within 500 km of the coastline (of the Atlantic) and 80% live within 320 km of the coast. When people live along the coastline this becomes known as a coastal shelf. The most densely populated areas are; the south, south east and the north east. In the south there is an average of 43.64 people per km2 (.64 is irrelevant) and the north east has an average population density of 30.68 people per km2. On average the south east has 78.35 people per km2, and Rio de Janeiro has the highest population density of 329.67 people per km2. [IMAGE] Cities like Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro have up to and over 85 people per square kilometre. (Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro make up two parts of three of the ‘golden triangle’). Population densities increase on proximity to the Atlantic. However there are two exceptions to this. Firstly Brasilia has a high population of more than 100 people per km2 and this is a city that is in the centre-west of Brazil. The second anomaly is Manaus that has a moderate population in comparison with the rest of Brazil of between 10 – 50 people per km2 and is in an area surrounded by low population densities. The north and north west of Brazil is extremely sparsely populated which in many places has less than 1 person per km2. The highest population in the north is in Belem and has between 10 – 49 people per km2. This city borders with the north east of Brazil. The Lorenz curve is an illustration used to show how much of a country’s population occupies a

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