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With the purpose of demonstrating how a person fits statistically into the Brazilian population, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) launched the interactive website Meu IBGE (My IBGE) on February 14, at the Meeting of New Mayors in Brasília (DF). By entering information about the municipality of residence, date of birth, sex, and color or race, the new website allows the user to find out how many people are in the same age group as him/her, how many people his/her age are can read and write, what percentage of the population has his/her color or race, among other data and aspects about the population and households.

The information on the website is sourced from the Population Census (2022) on Population by age and sex, by color or race, Literacy, Household characteristics, in addition to the predominant Biome by Municipality for statistical purposes (2024), Urbanized areas (2019) and Territorial area (2023).

“With the launch of Meu IBGE, the Institute is not only modernizing its way of disseminating data, but also strengthening its role of accurately portraying the diversity and characteristics of the Brazilian population. The platform is an invitation for all Brazilians to learn more about their country and see themselves reflected in the statistics that shape public policies and development strategies,” said Leandro Albertini, Coordinator of Online Experience and Services (CEON).

According to Rodrigo Rego, Manager of Innovation and Development and responsible for the website, the main goal of the product is to disseminate Census data in a simpler and more personal way to an audience that does not know much about statistics or geosciences. “The website is designed with very simple navigation, practically a slideshow, It provides very specific and basic information so that a school-age student or any layperson in the area can understand the importance of the Census and how data can help us realize what the Brazilian population is like, by  placing the website user into the context of the statistics produced by the Census,” he explained.

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De acordo com o IBGE, a população brasileira no ano de 2019 é de 210.147.125. Ao mesmo tempo, a área territorial oficial do país é de 8.515.767,049 km². Dessa forma, a densidade demográfica do país é de 24,6 hab./km²! No entanto, se considerarmos os valores demográficos regionais, essa relação altera-se significativamente, pois a população do país encontra-se distribuída de forma heterogênea, havendo regiões com uma elevadíssima concentração de pessoas e outras com verdadeiros “vazios demográficos”. A cidade de São Paulo, por exemplo, apresenta mais de 8 mil hab/km², ao passo em que várias cidades na região Norte apresentam índices menores do que 10 hab/km². Em virtude da história econômica do Brasil, as maiores taxas de densidade demográfica do Brasil encontram-se na região Sudeste, seguida pelo Sul e pelo Nordeste. Confira os dados regionais*: 1º Sudeste = 67.77 hab/km² 2º Sul = 38.38 hab/km² 3º Nordeste = 27.33 hab/km² 4º Centro-Oeste = 5,86 hab/km² 5º Norte = 2,66 hab/km² Se considerarmos a divisão dos estados brasileiros, a liderança fica a cargo do Distrito Federal – 514 hab/km² – resultado da rápida urbanização de seu entorno. Em seguida, temos o Rio de Janeiro (381,2 hab/km²), São Paulo (181 hab/km²), Alagoas (121,2 hab/km²) e Sergipe (104,3 hab/km²). Portanto, é possível observar que, espacialmente, o Brasil possui uma concentração populacional em toda a faixa litorânea do território nacional. Isso, de certa forma, é um reflexo do povoamento histórico do país e demonstra que as políticas de “marcha para o oeste” adotadas no século XX ainda foram insuficientes para promover uma total interiorização da população e dos investimentos no espaço geográfico do Brasil!

IBGE publishes updated Editions of the Political Maps of Brazil at the 1:2,500,000 and 1:5,000,000 scales. These maps are cartographic representations of the entire Brazilian territories and present the administrative and political division of Brazil.

One of the innovations in the 2023 edition of the Political Maps of Brazil the inclusion of data obtained from the 2022 Population Census. The information refers to Federation Units and residents, and had previously been obtained from the 2010 Population Census of population estimates.

The target audience of these maps consists of education professionals, students, public institutions and society as a whole.

For the update of maps the Institute made use of changes in the 2023 version of the Continuous Census Mapping of Brazil at the 1:250,000 scale (BC250).

Versions of the Political Maps of Brazil at the 1:2,500,000 and 1:5,000,000 scales will be released Every three Years, approximately, according to update made on the basis used as a reference and the demand for printed versions.

IBGE publishes the Brazilian Coastal-Marine System 2024, with adjustments of the eastern border to the Blue Amazon.

The adjustment made by the IBGE allows that the Brazilian sovereign area is completely represented, as well as the standardization of the legal borders of the national territory by research and public offices.

The new geography aims at meeting the demands of segments of the society interested in a mapping that includes the marine area under Brazilian jurisdiction.

The updating of the representation of the national territory might also help in the sustainable management of the marine and coastal biodiversity, from its popularization in the basic education to the support in establishing public policies.

After five days, more than 140 speakers, 350 representatives from technical entities and offices and from society, 100 hours of recorded debates, six roundtables and 23 working groups, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) closed this Friday, 2, the National Conference of Data Producers and Users. Held at the Maracanã Campus of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), northern zone of Rio de Janeiro, the event had as its theme "National Sovereignty in Geosciences, Statistics and Data: Risks and Opportunities for Brazil in the Digital Era," and counted with the participation of 600 technicians and three thousand registered persons, as well of five thousand on-site and remote participations. The roundtables were broadcast live through the Digital IBGE (ibge.gov.br).

The Conference gathered coordinators of roundtables and groups, including experts, representatives from giant technology transnational companies, public managers, public data companies, multilateral organizations and social movements, scholars and students, and civil society organizations to discuss digital soverignty and consolidation of the National System of Geosciences, Statistics and Data (SINGED).

In the closing session, Marcio Pochmann, President of the IBGE, highlighted that the event "closes a process started with the work of thinking the new SINGED, from a participative, transparent, democratic and collective reflection, leading to this Conference, which provides us with elements and subsidies for the way ahead, through a new regulatory mark, which requires a debate with the Legislative, Executive and Judiciary Powers."

Porchmann also highlighted that the results obtained from the Conference debates "provide subsidies to design a draft based on the reflection of the academic community and data producers and users. This Conference crowns all the effort accomplished in the entire period, before and during CONGEGE/CONFEST."