Population Distribution in Brazil

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Population Distribution in Brazil

Population of Brazil is 157,872,000, which is quite high considering

that only 10% live inland and over 90% live on a strip along the east

coast which is roughly 500km wide and is about 25% of the of the

countries total area. The density decreases quite rapidly towards the

north-west, where several remote areas are almost entirely lacking in

permanent settlement.

There’s an area in the dry north-eastern which they call the Sertao.

Here it is also lacking settlement also lacking in settlements due to

the following reasons; extremely high temperatures and poor soils make

it unsuitable for growing conditions in the area, which is also not

good to rear animals on. Sertao also lacks in clean water,

electricity, healthcare, energy reserves, communications poor and

education is also lacking. This place could be described as a typical

LEDC because all of the above matches and it has; high birth rates,

high infant mortality and short life expectancy, which makes the

people not wanting to live there so the area becomes sparsely

populated.

From the middle toward the western side of Brazil is the Amazonian

basin, it is basically the Amazonian rainforest. Here the weather is

wet, hot and very humid; the rivers here flood annually because of the

high convectional rainfall. And there is a high incidence of disease

i.e. bilharzias disease has popped up in the area in the last ten

years. Some trees in the rainforest were cleared but caused damage to

the soils which were leached out causing it to become infertile. This

area has also suffered from lack of government funding and can only

support the subsistence farmers. Overall here it is sparsely

populated. Apart from one area in the Amazon named Manaus is

moderately populated and has had two growth periods. It used to be the

original Portuguese trading post. The first growth boom occurred in

the 19th/20th century, this was because of the rubber boom. The second

occurred in 1980’s; this was because of developing of the tourism

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