Brazilian descent
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|
| Total population | |
|---|---|
|
c. 207 million (2015 estimate) |
|
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Brazil 190,755,799(2010 Census) 204,450,649(2015 estimate) |
|
 United States
|
1,315,000 |
 Paraguay
|
349,842 |
 Japan
|
179,649 |
 Portugal
|
166,775 |
 Spain
|
128,638 |
 United Kingdom
|
120,000 |
 Germany
|
113,716 |
 Switzerland
|
81,000 |
 France
|
70,000 |
 Italy
|
69,000 |
 Belgium
|
48,000 |
 Argentina
|
47,045 |
 Canada
|
39,300 |
 French Guiana
|
38,700 |
 Bolivia
|
28,546 |
 Australia
|
27,000 |
 Netherlands
|
21,948 |
| Other countries combined | 211,063 |
| Languages | |
| Primarily Portuguese Indigenous languages Various other languages by minorities |
|
| Religion | |
| Christian majority and various other denominations | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
Brazilians (brasileiros in Portuguese, IPA: [bɾaziˈlejɾus]) are citizens of Brazil. A Brazilian can also be a person born abroad to a Brazilian father or a Brazilian mother or a person who acquired Brazilian citizenship.
According to the Constitution of Brazil, a Brazilian citizen is:
According to the Constitution, all people who hold Brazilian citizenship are equal, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender or religion.
A foreigner can apply for Brazilian citizenship after living for 4 (four) uninterrupted years in Brazil and being able to speak Portuguese. A native person from an official Portuguese language country (Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, Guinea Bissau and East Timor) can request the Brazilian nationality after only 1 uninterrupted year living in Brazil. A foreign born person who holds Brazilian citizenship has exactly the same rights and duties of the Brazilian citizen by birth, but cannot occupy some special public positions such as the Presidency of the Republic, Vice-presidency of the Republic, Minister (Secretary) of Defense, Presidency (Speaker) of the Senate, Presidency (Speaker) of the House of Representatives, Officer of the Armed Forces and Diplomat.
Brazilians are mostly descendants of variously colonial settlers, post-colonial immigrant groups, African slaves and Brazil's indigenous peoples. Along with other immigrants of who arrived in Brazil, from the 1820s well into the 1970s, most of the settlers were Portuguese, Italians, Spaniards and German speaking nationalities, with significantly large numbers of Japanese, Poles, Ukrainians and Levantine Arabs.
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