Brazil has the largest population in South America and is the fifth country in the world in terms of population, the population in 2007 was 190 010 647. At the beginning of the 20th century, Brazil had 18 million inhabitants, that number is now more than tenfold.
The Brazilians are diverse in origin: it is a mixture of Africans, Europeans and Indians. Although elements of African and Native American cultures live in the Brazilian culture, Brazil has a predominantly Western culture. Approximately 1.4 million Brazilians of Japanese descent and live mainly in the south. The country has the largest Japanese population outside of Japan in the world. The Chinese community in Brazil for over two hundred years of existence, has about one hundred fifty thousand souls.
Approximately 750,000 Brazilians belong to the indigenous population. The majority of them live in the Amazon Rainforest, mainly along the Amazon. Approximately 12% of the land area of Brazil is set aside as indigenous areas.