Brazilian diaspora

The Brazilian diaspora comprises Brazilians who have migrated to other countries, a fairly recent phenomenon that has been driven mainly by economic problems that afflicted Brazil from the ending of the military dictatorship in the 1980s to the early 2000s (decade).

Demographics

There are an estimated 1.5 million Brazilians living abroad, mainly in the U.S. (450,599),Japan (~210,000), Paraguay (201,527), Portugal (~120.000), Spain (~120.000), France (~100.000), United Kingdom (100,000)Suriname (80,000), Italy (35,000), Switzerland (25,000), Angola (30,000), and another 100,000 are living in other European countries.

United States

There were an estimated 246,000 Brazilian Americans as of 2007. Another source gives an estimate of some 800,000 Brazilians living in the U.S. in 2000, while still another estimates that as of 2008 some 1,100,000 Brazilians live in the United States, 300,000 of them in Florida. Major concentrations are in New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut, Georgia, Florida and California.