For the first time in Brazil’s history, evangelical Christians now account for more than a quarter of the population, ...

SAO PAULO, June 28 (Reuters) - Brazil's annual population growth slowed over the past decade to its lowest since records began 150 years ago, the government statistics agency said on Wednesday ...

The IBGE said the Yanomami, who live on a reservation the size of Portugal on the border with Venezuela, have a population of 27,152 people, more than was previously estimated. Half of Brazil's ...

For the first time, an international study has deciphered the genome of the population of Brazil. Published in the journal Science, the research includes the African, Native American, and European ...

Venezuela contributed the largest number of new residents from any single country, 7,119, followed by Brazil, 4,681, and India, 3,956, according to population estimates released this week by the U ...

Comprehensive genome mapping of Brazil's highly admixed population identified over 8 million previously unknown genetic variants, including 36,637 potentially pathogenic ones.