Brazil has 207.8 million inhabitants, reveals preview of the 2022 Census

The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) released today (28), in Rio de Janeiro, a preview of the population of municipalities based on data collected by the 2022 Demographic Census up to December 25, which shows that Brazil reached 207,750,291 inhabitants this year.

According to the preliminary result, the Southeast has 87,348,223 inhabitants; the Northeast, 55,389,382; the South, 30,685,598; the North, 17,834,762, and the Midwest, 16,492,326.

The IBGE explained that the disclosure aims to comply with the law that determines the institute to annually provide the calculation of the population of each of the 5,570 municipalities in the country to the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU). Following a statistical model, the IBGE delivers a previous result for the year 2022 based on 83.9% of the census population.

“This adopted model was extensively studied and approved by the Consultative Commission for the 2022 Census, which looked in detail at the process developed to provide TCU and society with the best possible technical and real data”, said IBGE Research Director, Cimar Azeredo.

STATISTICAL MODEL

The IBGE reported that it studied proposals to comply with legal obligations in relation to the disclosure of municipal populations. After analyses, the institute’s team concluded that the best model is the one that uses data from the 2022 Census in cities where collection had already ended and a combination of data collected and estimates for the other municipalities.

“The mission of the IBGE is to portray reality. With the discussion of the proposals, we chose the one that comes as close as possible to the population reality in the country’s households,” said the technical coordinator of the Census, Luciano Duarte.

The information disclosed was delivered this Wednesday to the TCU for the purpose of calculating the distribution of the Municipalities Participation Fund (FPM), made according to the number of inhabitants. The table with the preview of the population for each municipality will be published in the Official Gazette (DOU).

DIAL-CENSUS 137

By December 25 of this year, 83.9% of the population had already been registered, totaling 87.7 million private households and more than 178 million people. The 2022 Census has been in the field carrying out collections since August 1st and will continue during the month of January 2023.

Residents of households where no one has responded to the 2022 Census should call Dial-Census 137, which serves all states in the country. The service will be made available gradually in the municipalities according to the progress of collection in each location. To find out if the Dial-Census is available in your municipality, click here.

The call is free and can be made from any landline or cell phone every day of the week from 8:00 am to 9:30 pm.

With information from Gazeta Brasil