Atlas of internal migration in Brazil
The Atlas of internal migration in Brazil maps where people moved between July 31, 2017 and July 31, 2022, using the internal-migration question from the sample microdata of Brazil's 2022 Demographic Census (controlled-access data from IBGE, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics).
Explore by territory
- Municipalities: 5,570 pages, one per municipality.
- States and Federal District (UF).
- Immediate and intermediate regions.
- Metropolitan regions and RIDEs.
Source
IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, sample microdata (controlled access), fixed-date migration question (residence on July 31, 2017 compared with residence on July 31, 2022).
Key findings
- 12.9 million people changed municipality of residence in the five-year period, across 5,570 Brazilian municipalities, yielding 53,097 published origin–destination pairs.
- Among people who left a metropolitan core for its periphery, 46.5% still work in the core: residential deconcentration without a matching shift in jobs; in the Federal District integrated region (RIDE-DF) that share reaches 59.3%.
- Among migrants aged 25 and over from Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo, 75.1% have completed higher education, a marked educational selectivity.
- Guarulhos → São Paulo is the country's largest commuting pair: 77,500 people live in Guarulhos and work in São Paulo.
Every published figure was rounded and passed through a statistical disclosure-control gate (small-cell suppression, rounding, sample-size ranges) before leaving the controlled-access environment: no individual record is ever published.