Census: Brazil's population growth slows dramatically

[bgwah]

As mentioned before, the final count has increased the population by more than 5 Mio. people:

The 2010 Census now shows 190.732.694 people in Brazil.

That is up by 20.933.524 people compared with the 2000 Census, or 12.3%.

Annual growth was therefore 1.17%

It would have been weird if the U.S. had grown more than Brazil.

[Tender Branson]

Malaysia has also released its 2010 Census numbers a few days ago:

27.565.821

That is up from 22.198.276 in the 2000 Census and 17.563.420 in the 1991 Census.

The annual growth rate was 2.2%, down from 2.6% in the 90s.

The biggest state is Selangor with 5.411.000 people and growth of 3.2%, while Kuala Lumpur has 1.627.000 people, with 2.2% annual growth.

http://www.statistics.gov.my/portal/images/stories/files/LatestReleases/banci/jadual1.pdf

[viewit]

Brazil, like any other Western country, has dropping growth rates--that's basically true for the whole world.  Now the challenge for many countries is the rapidly expanding population of pensioners--especially in relation to the working age population.  This will be the big, dramatic issue for countries such as China, India, and Brazil.  All will be full of elderly people in another 20-40 years, and without such a prosperous base as countries like Canada, Denmark, Australia that can afford to take care of their elderly.