出版社：Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
摘要：Accord ing to the 2000 census published by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and
Statistics (IBGE), 14.5% of the Brazilian population have some kind of physical
impairment. The largest percentage is found in the Northeast (16.8%), and the smallest
percentage is in the Southeast (13.1%). As regards visually impaired people, in 2000
there were 148,000 blind people, and 2.4 million people who had considerable sight
problems. Among the blind, 77,900 were women and 70,100 were men. In Brazil as a
whole, the Northeast had the highest concentration of blind people – 57,400 – against
54,600 in the Southeast. São Paulo was the state in the Southeast with the largest
concentration of blind people (23,900), followed by the Northeastern state of Bahia,
with 15,400 blind people.
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In 2004, according to the World Health Organization, there
were 5 million blind people in Brazil (Revista O Globo, 15 August 2004), and
according to TV Câmera (30 March 2005), in 2005 there were 25 million people who
were either blind or visually impaired.
