Re: Suggestion

[Evandro Fernandes Giovanini <evandrofg ig com br>]

Em Sex, 2003-09-05 ās 12:51, Danilo Segan escreveu:
> > 
> > According to http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=POR,
> > there are 158 million Portuguese speakers in Brazil, and 10
> > million in Portugal, plus a few more elsewhere.
> >
> 
> Oh, this will not be so easy to sort out -- Pedro Morais claims that  
> there are more 175 million in Brazil alone, and yet ethnologue contains  
> a much smaller number.
> 
> In these cases, I suggest rounding down and using "over ...".
> 

ethnologue.com is outdated. There were 170 million (169 590 693) people
living in Brazil in 2000, according to the last official 'Censo'. See
http://www.ibge.gov.br/home/estatistica/populacao/censo2000/.

--
Evandro