The country has become much more multicultural and dependent on foreign labor, on which large sectors of the economy today depend, to an extent unimaginable half a century ago. In the year the revolution occurred, the country had a mere 32,057 immigrants (0.4% of the population), mostly from other European countries. In 2022, the number of immigrants had grown 24 times, standing at 781,915 citizens (7.5% of total residents), according to the most recent report from the Migration Observatory, which points to a clear preponderance of Brazilians.
In this time period,
the migration balance, that is, the difference between immigrants entering and emigrants leaving, has changed radically:in 1974, the balance was clearly positive at 174.5 thousand individuals (in a “reinforcement” of the resident population that, immediately after the revolution, in 1975, would increase to 347 thousand people). In 2022, and after the years of
troika the migration balance reached negative values, similar to what had happened in the 1960s, the difference between those leaving and those entering had increased to 86.9 thousand individuals, that is, there were once again more people entering than there were leaving.
