World population/Brazil
South America
Population of Brazil
213,562,666
Growing by 0.02 people every second
#7
world rank
2.57%
of world population
+0.33%
yearly change
+698,363
people this year
2,492,914
births a year
1,566,180
deaths a year
How the figure for Brazil is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Brazil at 213,562,666 on 1 July 2026, and projects 214,261,029 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.02 people added every second.
That places Brazil number 7 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 2.57 per cent of everyone alive, and among the largest of the 14 entries in South America.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 2,492,914 births and 1,566,180 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.