Population distribution in Brazil

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Population distribution in Brazil

Population of Brazil is 157,872,000, which is quite high considering that only 10% live inland and over 90% live on a strip along the east coast which is roughly 500km wide and is about 25% of the of the countries total area. The density decreases quite rapidly towards the north-west, where several remote areas are almost entirely lacking in permanent settlement.

There’s an area in the dry north-eastern which they call the Sertao. Here it is also lacking settlement also lacking in settlements due to the following reasons; extremely high temperatures and poor soils make it unsuitable for growing conditions in the area, which is also not good to rear animals on. Sertao also lacks in clean water, electricity, healthcare, energy reserves, communications poor and education is also lacking. This place could be described as a typical LEDC because all of the above matches and it has; high birth rates, high infant mortality and short life expectancy, which makes the people not wanting to live there so the area becomes sparsely populated.

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From the middle toward the western side of Brazil is the Amazonian basin, it is basically the Amazonian rainforest. Here the weather is wet, hot and very humid; the rivers here flood annually because of the high convectional rainfall. And there is a high incidence of disease i.e. bilharzias disease has popped up in the area in the last ten years. Some trees in the rainforest were cleared but caused damage to the soils which were leached out causing it to become infertile. This area has also suffered from lack of government funding and can only support the subsistence farmers. ...

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