Italian Brazilians
1940 Brazilian Census
Table:
Brazilians who were born to a foreign-born father (1940 Census)[23]

Main places of birth of the father

Number of children

Italy

1,260,931

Portugal

735,929

Spain

340,479

Germany

159,809

Syria- Lebanon- Palestine- Iraq - Middle-Eastern

107,074

Japan-Korea

104,355

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