Immigration to Brazil

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After Brazil was taken over by the Portuguese, the settlement of convicts began in 1500. Around 1550 there were around 30,000 Portuguese living in Brazil. Between 1500 and 1650 about 580,000 Portuguese came to Brazil, followed by another 600,000 immigrants during the gold rush in Minas Gerais from 1700 to 1760.

In the south of Brazil, the climatic and geological conditions were such that Europeans could live here and farm with the methods they were familiar with.

After Brazil's independence in 1822, the political leadership tried to develop the poorly developed, temperate zones, especially in the south of the country, by settling European farming families. At the same time, this was intended to militarily protect the south of Brazil against a possible threat from Argentina .

About 5 million Europeans settled in Brazil between 1872 and 1940.

Immigration to Brazil 1800–1950:

The migration balance per 1,000 inhabitants was 0 in 2014. This means that roughly the same number of people immigrated to Brazil as emigrated.

statistics

Immigration to Brazil 1884–1893, 1924–1933 and 1945–1949
Source: Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE)
 
decade
nationality 1884-1893 1894-1903 1904-1913 1914-1923 1924-1933 1945-1949 1950-1954 1955-1959
German 22,778 6,698 33,859 29,339 61,723 5,188 12.204 4,633
Spaniards 113.116 102.142 224,672 94,779 52,405 4,092 53,357 38,819
Italian 510,533 537.784 196,521 86,320 70.177 15,312 59,785 31,263
Japanese - 11,868 20,398 110.191 12 5,447 28,819
Portuguese 170,621 155,542 384,672 201,252 233,650 26,268 123.082 96,811
middle East 96 7.124 45,803 20,400 20,400 N / A N / A N / A
Other 66,524 42,820 109,222 51,493 164,586 29,552 84,851 47,599
Total 883,668 852.110 1.006.617 503.981 717.223 80,424 338.726 247,944

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Country database of the German Foundation for World Population, keyword Brazil