Brazil's states in numbers

The 27 states (26 plus the Federal District) side by side: population, number of municipalities and each one's indicators, from official sources. Click the map or the table to open a state's page.

Population by state · 2022 Census

Residents, in millions. The Federal District is too small to stand out on the map; use the table.

#	State	Region	People	% of Brazil	Municipalities
1	São Paulo	Southeast	44,411,238	21.9%	645
2	Minas Gerais	Southeast	20,539,989	10.1%	853
3	Rio de Janeiro	Southeast	16,055,174	7.9%	92
4	Bahia	Northeast	14,141,626	7.0%	417
5	Paraná	South	11,444,380	5.6%	399
6	Rio Grande do Sul	South	10,882,965	5.4%	497
7	Pernambuco	Northeast	9,058,931	4.5%	185
8	Ceará	Northeast	8,794,957	4.3%	184
9	Pará	North	8,120,131	4.0%	144
10	Santa Catarina	South	7,610,361	3.7%	295
11	Goiás	Central-West	7,056,495	3.5%	246
12	Maranhão	Northeast	6,776,699	3.3%	217
13	Paraíba	Northeast	3,974,687	2.0%	223
14	Amazonas	North	3,941,613	1.9%	62
15	Espírito Santo	Southeast	3,833,712	1.9%	78
16	Mato Grosso	Central-West	3,658,649	1.8%	141
17	Rio Grande do Norte	Northeast	3,302,729	1.6%	167
18	Piauí	Northeast	3,271,199	1.6%	224
19	Alagoas	Northeast	3,127,683	1.5%	102
20	Distrito Federal	Central-West	2,817,381	1.4%	1
21	Mato Grosso do Sul	Central-West	2,757,013	1.4%	79
22	Sergipe	Northeast	2,210,004	1.1%	75
23	Rondônia	North	1,581,196	0.8%	52
24	Tocantins	North	1,511,460	0.7%	139
25	Acre	North	830,018	0.4%	22
26	Amapá	North	733,759	0.4%	16
27	Roraima	North	636,707	0.3%	15

Brazil had 203,080,756 inhabitants in the 2022 Census. São Paulo is the most populous, with 44,411,238 (21.9% of the country), and Roraima is the least populous, with 636,707.

States by region

North: Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima, Tocantins
Northeast: Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará, Maranhão, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, Sergipe
Central-West: Distrito Federal, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul
Southeast: Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo
South: Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina

Brazil's 5,570 municipalities by size

Municipality size	Municipalities	% of municipalities	Population	% of population
up to 5,000	1,324	23.8%	4,442,756	2.2%
5,000 to 20,000	2,536	45.5%	27,556,846	13.6%
20,000 to 100,000	1,391	25.0%	55,437,219	27.3%
over 100,000	319	5.7%	115,643,935	56.9%

Where the numbers come from

Population and municipalities: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census (SIDRA table 4714). Census values (August 1, 2022); IBGE's annual estimates are recalculated and appear as a separate indicator.

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