Abstract
The 2000 Census recorded 5.859 million inhabitants residing in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro. This population is the result of a growth rate above the national average until the 1960s, primarily due to intense immigration. Natural growth has always remained below the national average due to the low fertility rates that have historically characterized the municipality.
However, over the last 40 years, the population growth rate began to decline more rapidly than that of Brazil as a whole. Between 1991 and 2000, Rio's growth rate did not reach 50% of the national rate. In the previous decade, the gap was even more pronounced, as the former represented only 36% of the latter. Nonetheless, in the 1990s, while the national growth rate declined, Rio's experienced a slight increase.
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