IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics), a governmental agency in charge of census and surveys on matters like agriculture, entrepreneurship, social indicators, lies to the world when it claims that Brazilian fertility rate has dropped to 1,8 children per woman nowadays.
The evidence of what I say comes from public data as follows.
Brazilian population in 1996 amounted to 164,3 million people. In 2016, it reached 207,7 million inhabitants.
These data show that, in 20 years only, Brazilian population has suffered a 43 million people increase.
This corresponds to a little more than the entire population of Ukraine in 2017, of 42,418 million people.
Another comparison can be made with the population of Spain in 2016, of 46,698 million inhabitants. From 1996 to 2016, Brazilian population increased an entire Spain, minus 6,5217 percent of its residents.
In the base of the Brazilian social pyramid, women often have more than 5, five children. In the so called favelas (slams), and also amongst homeless people, drug addicts, isolated and rural communities. Brazilian authorities and scholars, driven by yet unidentified reasons, refuse to acknowledge the mere existence of this daunting reality, that, year after year, condemn an thousands or millions of babies to a miserable, unhealthy, unsafe and hopeless life.
People from all over the world that read me, please put pressure on Brazilian government to take action on this problem.
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