2023-06-29 13:44:00
Nine of the 27 Brazilian capitals had a decrease in the number of inhabitants from 2010 to 2022, according to data from the 2022 Census released by the Brazilian Institute of Statistical Geography (IBGE).
The greatest contraction occurred in Salvador, whose population went from 2,675,656 inhabitants in 2010 to 2,418,005 in 2022, a reduction of 9.6%. As a result, the capital of Bahia was surpassed in population by Brasília and Fortaleza, falling from third to fifth place among the most populous cities in the country.
Capital cities such as Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Recife, Porto Alegre, Belém and Natal also lost their inhabitants. In absolute numbers, Rio had the second largest reduction, with 109,023 fewer inhabitants, which represents a loss of 1.7%.
The third city that reduced its population the most is not a capital and is in the metropolitan region of the state of Rio de Janeiro: São Gonçalo, which went from 999,728 people to 896,744.
“The core municipalities of large urban concentrations, especially the metropolitan ones, are losing dynamism or growing very little, and even decreasing their population. In Brazil, this is something new,” explains Cláudio Stenner, director of Geosciences at IBGE.
In part of the cases, the decrease is the result of the territorial depletion of the municipality.
Translated by José Alberto Gutiérrez
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