The sharpest rise in the number of medics occurred 2022–2023, 538,095 to 572,960, up 6.5%. With 2.8 doctors per thousand citizens, Brazil is now close to Canada, and surpasses the US, Japan, South Korea, and Mexico.
A total of 111.28 mi people live up to 150km from the Brazilian coast—54.8% of the population in 2022—and 9.42 mi (4.6%) live on the border, also at a distance of up to 150km from the limits of the national territory.
A total of 1,693,535 individuals declare themselves indigenous countrywide, or 0.83% of the nation’s resident population, distributed across 4,832 municipalities. The North and the Northeast have 75% of the country’s native population.
The number is up 12.3 mi since the previous census, in 2010. The 6.5 percent difference means the average population growth in recent years was 0.52%—the lowest since 1872, when the nation’s first census was conducted.
The effects of COVID-19 not considered, life expectancy for men was reported at 73.3 years in 2020. For women, it stood at 80.3 years.
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