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Table 1 - Country region, coastal state, number of municipalities in front of the sea Graph 1 - Estimated total population of municipalities in front
and estimated total population in the years 2015, 2018 and 2020 of the sea, by State, in the years 2015, 2018 and 2020

Region State Number of Estimated population of municipalities Rio Grande do Sul
Municipalities (2015) (2018) (2020)
Santa Catarina
N Pará 4 500,267 512,780 521,026 Paraná

N Amapá 14 507,506 540,216 561,301 São Paulo
Rio de Janeiro
NE Maranhão 25 1,876,753 1,917,551 1,944,780
Espírito Santo
NE Piauí 4 197,957 199,832 201,051 Bahia
NE Ceará 21 3,854,657 3,943,068 4,002,101 Sergipe
Alagoas
NE Rio Grande do Norte 22 1,235,742 1,266,460 1,285,870
Pernambuco
NE Paraíba 10 1,074,564 1,108,789 1,131,632 Paraíba

NE Pernambuco 14 3,336,631 3,395,402 3,434,967 Rio Grande do Norte
Ceará
NE Alagoas 15 1,245,709 1,269,897 1,286,031
Piauí
NE Sergipe 8 867,480 899,991 920,518
Maranhão
NE Bahia 36 4,536,629 4,624,359 4,680,659 Amapá

SE Espírito Santo 14 1,960,099 2,058,903 2,123,802 Pará
2020 0,000 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000 10,000 12,000 14,000
SE Rio de Janeiro 25 11,622,644 11,872,146 12,038,696 2018
2015 (millions)
SE São Paulo 16 2,038,731 2,104,420 2,146,104
Source: author’s elaboration
S Paraná 6 269,155 277,794 283,378
All municipalities showed a population Another interesting point to be men-
S Santa Catarina 30 1,949,578 2,069,799 2,147,705
increase, even if slight, with emphasis on tioned is that 13 coastal states have mu-
S Rio Grande do Sul 16 563,245 581,615 592,852 the states of Amapá (11%), Santa Catarina nicipalities in front of the sea located in
(10%) and Espírito Santo (8%). Although metropolitan regions (MR) or urban ag-
Total 280 37,639,362 38,645,040 39,304,493
it is not among the three states with the glomerations (AGL). The IBGE (2020) rec-
Source: author’s elaboration, based on data from DataSus (2021) highest population dynamics, Rio Grande ommends that the main purpose of such
do Sul, in a survey released by the Brazilian spatial cuts is the identification of polit-
We can observe that most municipalities population lives in municipalities in front Institute of Geography and Statistics, found ical-administrative units in Brazil, which
in front of the sea are located in the North- of the sea, in addition to that, between that among the ten municipalities that had qualify for specific treatment due to their
east region (155) followed by the South- the years from 2015 to 2020 this quota a population increase between 2017 and planning and management particularities.
east region (55). Table 1 also shows the increased by 4%. The states of Rio de Ja- 2018, seven are located on the north coast Thus, Table 2 explains the MR and AGL in
estimated population, given that the last neiro (32%), Bahia (13%) and Ceará (11%) of the State, as opposed to more than two which the municipalities of the economy
Brazilian Census took place in 2010. It is are the most populous, in contrast to the thirds of the municipalities that registered related to the sea are in comparison to the
estimated that around 17% of the Brazilian states of Piauí, Paraná and Pará (1%). population reduction. respective State.

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