The Venezuelans officially surpassed the Portuguese and became the largest foreign community in Brazil-a country that houses almost one million immigrants.
The last census carried out by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), released this Friday, revealed that The Portuguese left to be the largest foreign community in Brazil.
The number of Venezuelans residents in Brazil rose from 2,900, in 2010, to 271,500, in 2022, mainly due to the strong exodus of people provoked by the economic, political, social and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela.
The number of Portuguese resident in Brazil, which traditionally constituted the largest foreign community in the South American Lusophone country, fell from 138,000 in 2010 to 104,300 in 2022.
Portugal in second place
“In 2010, those born in Portugal was the largest group in this segment of the population, giving way in 2022 to those born in Venezuela, and the European country passed to the post of second largest foreign naturalness in Brazil,” he said Marcio Minamiguchiresponsible for estimates and IBGE population projections.
“There was also an important increase in natural natives from other Latin American countries and, on the other hand, a Reduction of Born in Europe Generally speaking, ”added the same expert.
After Venezuelans and Portuguese, the largest foreign communities in Brazil are Bolivians (80,3 mil), Paraguayan (58,3 mil), Haitians (57,400) and Argentines (42,6 mil).
Latin Americans, which increased from 183,000 in 2010 to 646,000 in 2022, represent almost 65% of foreigners in Brazil, destroying Europeans and Americans, who were previously dominant.
Among the non-Latin Americans, and excluding the Portuguese, the most prominent are the Japanese (39 thousand), Italians (30,200), Chinese (23,800), theAmericans (23,300) and Spanish (23,1 mil).
O number of foreigners in Brazil represents 0.50% of the country’s population and is 70% higher than that recorded in the 2010 census (592.6 thousand Brazilian foreigners or naturalized) and also the largest number since the 1980 censuswhen there were 1.11 million foreigners living in the South American country.
