And finally Brazilian metro areas above 500k inh.
---------------------------- 2022 -------- 2010 -------- 2000
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São Paulo -------------- 20.731.920 -- 19.683.975 -- 17.878.703 --- 5,32% -- 10,10%
Rio de Janeiro --------- 11.629.616 -- 11.825.040 -- 10.853.681 -- -1,65% --- 8,95%
Belo Horizonte ---------- 5.001.545 --- 4.772.562 --- 4.259.163 --- 4,80% -- 12,05%
Brasília ---------------- 4.168.664 --- 3.622.571 --- 2.866.339 -- 15,07% -- 26,38%
Porto Alegre ------------ 3.854.801 --- 3.876.595 --- 3.640.461 -- -0,56% --- 6,49%
Recife ------------------ 3.726.974 --- 3.690.547 --- 3.337.565 --- 0,99% -- 10,58%
Fortaleza --------------- 3.593.646 --- 3.468.137 --- 2.930.374 --- 3,62% -- 18,35%
Curitiba ---------------- 3.388.429 --- 3.060.332 --- 2.662.441 -- 10,72% -- 14,94%
Salvador ---------------- 3.299.362 --- 3.458.571 --- 3.021.572 -- -4,60% -- 14,46%
Campinas ---------------- 2.966.724 --- 2.630.893 --- 2.209.558 -- 12,76% -- 19,07%
Goiânia ----------------- 2.532.671 --- 2.116.730 --- 1.693.650 -- 19,65% -- 24,98%
Manaus ------------------ 2.063.689 --- 1.802.014 --- 1.405.835 -- 14,52% -- 28,18%
Belém ------------------- 1.978.620 --- 2.042.417 --- 1.795.536 -- -3,12% -- 13,75%
Santos ------------------ 1.805.531 --- 1.664.136 --- 1.476.820 --- 8,50% -- 12,68%
Vitória ----------------- 1.738.158 --- 1.565.393 --- 1.337.187 -- 11,04% -- 17,07%
São José dos Campos ----- 1.585.451 --- 1.415.146 --- 1.233.050 -- 12,03% -- 14,77%
São Luís ---------------- 1.458.836 --- 1.309.330 --- 1.070.688 -- 11,42% -- 22,29%
Natal ------------------- 1.263.637 --- 1.187.899 ----- 980.897 --- 6,38% -- 21,10%
Maceió ------------------ 1.222.505 --- 1.140.682 ----- 977.192 --- 7,17% -- 16,73%
João Pessoa ------------- 1.173.268 --- 1.034.615 ----- 870.339 -- 13,40% -- 18,87%
Florianópolis ----------- 1.177.131 ----- 878.260 ----- 709.941 -- 34,03% -- 23,71%
Ribeirão Preto ---------- 1.115.223 ----- 982.207 ----- 816.228 -- 13,54% -- 20,33%
Teresina ---------------- 1.040.765 ----- 969.690 ----- 845.052 --- 7,33% -- 14,75%
Sorocaba ---------------- 1.024.460 ----- 846.129 ----- 719.294 -- 21,08% -- 17,63%
Cuiabá -------------------- 998.131 ----- 851.587 ----- 741.975 -- 17,21% -- 14,77%
Londrina ------------------ 958.922 ----- 865.533 ----- 759.964 -- 10,79% -- 13,89%
Aracaju ------------------- 932.210 ----- 835.816 ----- 675.667 -- 11,53% -- 23,70%
Campo Grande -------------- 897.938 ----- 786.797 ----- 663.621 -- 14,13% -- 18,56%
Itajaí-B. Camboriú -------- 849.038 ----- 570.947 ----- 404.854 -- 48,71% -- 41,03%
Jundiaí ------------------- 843.633 ----- 698.724 ----- 580.131 -- 20,74% -- 20,44%
Maringá ------------------- 789.931 ----- 658.703 ----- 561.212 -- 19,92% -- 17,37%
Joinville ----------------- 778.481 ----- 620.572 ----- 511.812 -- 25,45% -- 21,25%
Uberlândia ---------------- 713.224 ----- 604.013 ----- 501.214 -- 18,08% -- 20,51%
Petrolina-Juazeiro -------- 624.612 ----- 491.927 ----- 393.105 -- 26,97% -- 25,14%
Feira de Santana ---------- 616.272 ----- 556.642 ----- 480.949 -- 10,71% -- 15,74%
São José do Rio Preto ----- 705.421 ----- 589.840 ----- 515.199 -- 19,60% -- 14,49%
Blumenau ------------------ 653.361 ----- 548.975 ----- 454.801 -- 19,01% -- 20,71%
Caxias do Sul ------------- 604.617 ----- 565.054 ----- 476.709 --- 7,00% -- 18,53%
Macapá -------------------- 550.551 ----- 499.466 ----- 363.747 -- 10,23% -- 37,31%
Juiz de Fora -------------- 540.756 ----- 516.247 ----- 456.796 --- 4,75% -- 13,01%
The most surprising thing about the Census was the completely collapse of population growth in the poorer regions (North and Northeast), indicating the resume of massive immigration and the collapse of growth on the big metropolises. The former certainly is the result of the 2015-2016 recession and economic malaise after that and the latter was a mixed of this and Covid.
São Paulo metropolitan area was hit hard by the Covid and as result neighbouring metro areas grew like crazy, Campinas, Sorocaba, Jundiaí all capturing SP migrants.
São Paulo Macrometropolitan Area reached
33,598,706, a 8% growth over 2010 and above the 6% of the country's growth.
Big metropolises like Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre, Salvador and Belém posting negative growth falling down from quite healthy growth rates. That was something unthinkable. If I'm not mistaken, no US Rust Belt metro area posted negative growth between the two last census.
Santa Catarina state has definitely become Brazil's Sun Belt, with Florianópolis and Itajaí-Camboriú speeding their already crazy growth rates. Even though Santa Catarina is wealthy, they have a very poor general infrastructure compared to São Paulo state and I don't know how long they will manage this kind of growth.