Population Archives - The Brazilian Report

Brazil’s healthcare system unprepared for fast-aging population

Twenty-seven-year-old Fábio Cruz lost hope in Brazil’s public health system when his mother suffered a stroke. Doctors at a (...) READ MORE

On October 7, Brazil will hold its first election since Operation Car Wash ravaged the political landscape. Four years (...) READ MORE

Brazil’s population, which today stands at 208 million people, will continue to grow over the next 30 years, when (...) READ MORE

Brazil is no longer a country of young people. Latin America’s largest economy is undergoing a profound and rapid (...) READ MORE

At the end of last year, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) released the latest population estimates (...) READ MORE

Since taking office nearly two years ago, President Michel Temer has made the pension system reform the center of (...) READ MORE

Brazil’s Minister of Health, Ricardo Barros, was quick to declare the end of the country’s yellow fever outbreak in (...) READ MORE

President Michel Temer’s pension system reform is all but buried in 2017, and that realization came after an odd (...) READ MORE

If you’re at all familiar with Brazil, then you’ve probably heard about the “jeitinho brasileiro” – or the Brazilian (...) READ MORE

When Brazil’s national statistics institute IGBE carried out its most recent national census in 2010, the results were unexpected. (...) READ MORE