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Willing_Animator_993 t1_j10bvdy wrote

Reply to comment by Slow-Substance-6800 in [OC] Percentage of International Migrants Per Country by andyprendy

I would presume the definition would be the people living there but born abroad? Looking this up for Japan and Brazil, it gives 2 and 0.9 percent respectively on Wikipedia, so in the ranges corresponding to the colors. May it be that SP is lot more international than rest of the country? Brazil has actually a huge population - much bigger than Japan, meanwhile Tokyo is bigger than SP. So even if SP is more international than Tokyo, that doesn't seem impossible to go with these stats, as long as the rest of Brazil would have lot less immigrants.

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Slow-Substance-6800 t1_j11zrt6 wrote

You have a good point there. São Paulo represents a small percentage of the whole country because of how populated Brazil is, while Tokyo is represents way more.

The Extended Metropolitan Area of São Paulo, according to Wikipedia, has 33 million people. Brazil has 213 million people. SP is around 15.5% of the country.

The Greater Tokyo Area has 38 million people. Japan has 125.7 million. Over 30% of the country.

So my experiences in Tokyo are a greater representation of the overall country than my experiences in São Paulo, even if the cities are similarly sized.

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