Born in Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro is home to 6.7 million people. It is the number 2 city in Brazil by population. Sourced: GeoNames
Among the largest cities in Brazil
São Paulo12.4 million
Rio de Janeiro6.7 million
Belo Horizonte2.7 million
Salvador2.7 million
Fortaleza2.4 million
Manaus2.2 million
Brasília2.2 million
Curitiba1.9 million
Sourced: GeoNames Population. Rio de Janeiro is highlighted.
Brazil as a whole
- Life expectancy at birth: 72.8 years for boys, 79.0 for girls Sourced: UN WPP 2024
- Children who die before age 5: 13.8 in every 1,000 births Sourced: UN WPP 2024
These are national figures: the game does not have separate health figures for Rio de Janeiro. More about Brazil
Live a life in Rio de Janeiro
Choose Rio de Janeiro and you are born there, to a family drawn from the real mix of the place. Then you live it year by year, with a few choices that bend the odds. About an hour, and every life replays exactly from its seed.