At over 200M citizens, Brazil is not merely Latin America’s largest country—it’s the seventh-most populous country worldwide, behind Nigeria and ahead of Bangladesh.

But because so much incredible culture, music, and food is hard to contain within just one continental country, the rest of the world is lucky enough to count 5M Brazilians living abroad, with the United States attracting just about 40% of these.

Now, if we tell you that New York, Miami, and Orlando are home to half of all Brazilians living in the US, that wouldn’t surprise you, right? After all, anyone who’s ever visited Disneyworld – or a particularly lively Miami nightclub – knows that the Brazilian presence is inescapable.

But Boston somehow attracted 420K Brazilians, more than any other single city besides the Big Apple? Now that’s surprising.

Outside of the US, the situation is equally interesting. Portugal’s two largest cities, Lisbon and Porto, have unsurprisingly become home to hundreds of thousands of Brazil-born immigrants. Brazilians represent some 5% of the overall national population, and over half of the total foreign-born population in Portugal. And Portugal – which like much of Europe is facing low birth rates – is capitalizing well, with recent laws allowing for easier residency and visa access for Brazilians and other Portuguese-speaking immigrants.

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Source: 02.08 Brasileiros no Exterior – DADOS ATUALIZADOS

Tools: Figma, Rawgraphs, Sheets

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8 comments

  1. 5 million is not much compared to the population in my opinion

  2. Great chart! My Brazilian gf found this especially interesting.

  3. I was told they are citizens of those respective countries, now it turns out they are Brazilians?

  4. Not surprising for anyone from the Boston area. Massachusetts was a massive settling location for Portuguese immigrants (so already had a decent sized Portuguese speaking population) and Massachusetts has the best public services and best public education in the US. It’s pretty much the best state for an immigrant trying to attain the American dream for their children.

  5. There’s a large Portuguese community in Massachusetts (and New Jersey too), so that’s probably why a lot of Brazilians settled there specifically.

    Brazil has the largest Japanese community outside Japan. Japan historically was very resistant to immigration generally but they encouraged Japanese-Brazilians to move to Japan (they called them “returnees”), and many did.

  6. Wonder how many of the Nagoya expats are Japanese-Brazilian

  7. There’s 420,000 Brazilians in boston, a city of 650,000?

  8. Some numbers are definitely way off. According to Google miami have ~450k inhabitants. I’m pretty sure Brazilians aren’t 90% of the population.

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