Did you know in Brazil more than 5 million people live in cities?Population is my society element. It deals with the people on the earth. But, what’s population you might ask? It’s basically the number of people living in an area. For example there are 23 kids in your class. That’s the population of the class but there are probably groups. This splits the population per each group. Population can measure by people, places and things. In the 1900 60% of the population was in Asia. But let’s get back to the definition of population. Population is a material element because you can touch people. Thus it gives the name material element. Looks like you learned a lot.

In Brazil with population, you can talk about people, density and ethnicity. First I want to talk about the total population in Brazil. The population is 144,925,000 in 2005.But, 50 years ago there was half of that. The capital of Brazil, Brasília has 1,577,000 people. Rio de Janerio has 10,000,000. Brazil has the 6 largest amount of people in it. The growth in Brazil has increased rapidly over the time of 50 years.

So it varies were you live which is the next topic.In Brazil the population will differ where you live. If you live in Sao Paulo, there will be traffic and most likely will be crowded. But, if you live in the southwest of Brazil it won’t be as crowded as a big city because it is more of a farming area. Also only 9.7 percent of the population is in the southwest.

My last topic is on ethnicity of Brazil. To start with, 63% of all Brazilians are under the age of 23 because a family usually consists of 5-7 children per family. Also the average age of a Brazilian is between 15-59 years. Brazil has the largest amount people of Japanese ancestry outside of Japan because in the 1900’s Japan had just gotten over several wars and Japan was running low on rice but the Brazilian government knew the Japanese could make great farms. So the Braziliazn government paid for the Japanese trips over to Brazil.

Last 55% of the people in Brazil have European background because Portugal the country that founded the land of Brazil had a settlement but the Brazilians took over Portuguese and the Brazilians started there own settlement on there land. So the Brazilians let many other European counties to come. So as you can see Brazil has large amounts of different ethnicity.

Now you know a littlie about population, density, and ethnicity. But there is all always more to learn.

--EW