Demographics

See also: Largest Cities of Northeast Region, Brazil and Demographics of Brazil Capibaribe River. Modern Recife. The neighborhood of Boa Viagem.

The Recife metropolitan area is the 5th most populous of Brazil, after São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte and Porto Alegre, and the 1st in the Northeast region. The most populous neighborhoods of Recife in 2008 were Boa Viagem (100,388), Casa Amarela (69,134), and Várzea (64,512).

According to the 2010 IBGE Census, there were 1,472,202 people residing in the city of Recife. The census revealed the following numbers: 754,674 Brown (Multiracial) people (49.1%), 636,864 White people (41.4%), 127,789 Black people (8.3%), 14,696 Asian people (1%), 3,665 Amerindian people (0.2%).

In 2010, the city of Recife was the 9th most populous city in Brazil.

In 2010, the city had 268,160 opposite-sex couples and 1,004 same-sex couples. The population of Recife was 53.8% female and 46.2% male.

Religion

The Patroness Saint of Recife is Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Nossa Senhora do Carmo), dating back one hundred years ago (1909). Every July 16, her day, she is remembered by the Catholics in Recife, in her church.

Religion Percentage (%) Number Catholic Church 54.32 835.337 Protestant 24.99 384.303 No religion 14.59 224.401 Spiritist 3.56 54.788 Other Christian religiosities 1.59 24.474 Umbanda, Candomblé and other Afro-religions 0.48 7.434 Judaism 0.08 1.286 Buddhism 0.04 641 Indigenous traditions 0.01 251 Islam 0.004 69 Hinduism 0.002 38

Source: IBGE 2010.