Brazil has launched what it calls a social summit ahead of next week’s Group of 20 meeting of the top economies.
Recent census data reveals a stark reality: favelas, or informal settlements, are growing at an alarming rate. The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE reports that 16.4 million ...
Brazil has 16.390 million people living in favelas countrywide. The amount represents 8.1 percent of the national population (203M)—in other words, eight out of every 100 people live in these areas.