2023-06-17 12:03:37
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Xinhua) — The Brazilian population is aging, living more and more alone and mostly renting, according to a comprehensive survey released today by the state-owned Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).
According to the sample, 51.1 percent of the Brazilian population last year were women, while men were 48.9 percent.
In the last 10 years, the population has aged, and the percentage of elderly people aged 60 or over went from 11.3 percent to 15.1 percent. At the same time, the percentage of people under the age of 30 dropped from 49.9 percent in 2012 to 43.3 percent in 2022.
The survey reveals that women are the ones who live this longevity the longest. Among the population over 60 years of age, last year there were 78.8 men for every 100 women alive.
In 2022, the country had a total of 74.1 million households, of which 85 percent were houses and 14.9 percent flats.
The percentage of households with only one resident is growing. Last year it was 15.9 percent of the total housing. Ten years earlier, it was only 12.2 percent.
Men live more alone than women: of those who live alone, 55.4 percent are men, while this percentage is 44.6 percent in the case of women.
When analyzing the age pattern of people who live alone, it is observed that 12.3 percent are between 15 and 29 years old; 45.9 percent were in the 30-59 age group, and 41.8 percent were people 60 years of age or older.
Compared to previous surveys, there are more people who have to pay rent in the country. The percentage of tenants reached 21.1 percent in 2022 of the total number of households, compared to 18.8 percent in 2016.
The proportion of people who self-declare black increased from 7.4 percent to 10.6 percent between 2012 and 2022, following the trend of the last 10 years. Most of the country’s inhabitants declare themselves to be brown, but the percentage has remained stable over the years, around 45 percent of the total.
The percentage of blacks in the country (which corresponds to the sum of blacks and browns) reached a record of 55.9 percent of the Brazilian population last year.
The division by race in Brazil is marked by regional differences: blacks are proportionally more in the north (78.4 percent of the self-declared black population) and less in the south (26.3 percent).
This fall in the participation of the white population was more accentuated in the first half of the series, between 2012 and 2017, with less variation in the most recent period.
According to the study, 4.4 million households connected to the water supply network did not receive daily water in 2022, with the highest percentage in the northeast: 28.2 percent live in these conditions.
The northern region continues to have the lowest percentage of households connected to the general water supply network, with only 60 percent of households connected. In Brazil, the average is 85.5 percent, a percentage that has remained stable since 2012.
The proportion of households connected to the general sewerage network increased from 68.2 percent to 69.5 percent of all households in the country between 2019 and 2022. This percentage is higher (78 percent) if we consider only urban households .
However, there are still large regional distortions in this regard: while in São Paulo the rate reached 93.6 percent, in the state of Amapá it is 20.7 percent of the population.
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