After presenting a brief look at the historical development of Brazil's demography during the period 1970 - 1995, and seeking to show the wide range, in social, economic and geographic terms, of these studies accomplished by researchers in this area, the author will show how it is possible, based on existing empirical studies of demographic history, to access information about the socioeconomic life of the Brazilian populations of the past. Also, to identify the geographic areas of the dispersal of groups of the population and discover the conditions faced by the newly born in the face of the economic conditions of the locations where they were born.
Historical demography; Social and economic mobility; Geographic mobility
