Sao Paulo in Numbers

22 Feb

Numbers are great. Well for certain things anyway. Try telling someone that 3 is a better number than 2 and you’ll get in a whole heap of trouble though. But that’s another story really. These are a few numbers about Sao Paulo, taken from a Brazilian blog. I figured they may help paint a picture.

  • 11,244,365 inhabitants
  • 12,500 restaurants
  • 15,000 bars
  • 1 million pizzas a day
  • 17,000 items of sushi per hour
  • 1,950 banks
  • 148 universities
  • 3 million passengers per day in the Subway
  • 169 thousand public phones (public phones)
  • 4,500 public squares
  • 5,954 intersections with traffic lights
  • R$320 billion is the GDP (15% of Gross Domestic Product of South America)
  • R$5.3 billion is the average volume of the stock exchange / day
  • 3rd largest budget in the country (second only to the Union and State of São Paulo)
  • 300 thousand motoboys (but who are the motoboys?)
  • 6.5 million cars
  • 15 thousand buses
  • 32,766 taxis
  • 600 thousand companies
  • 51 malls
  • 410 hotels, with 42 one thousand quarters
  • 205 hospitals
  • 3885 private schools
  • 3153 public schools
  • 110 museums
  • 160 theaters
  • 600 new buildings per year
  • 4 thousand properties sold per hour in town

I’m not sure about the 1 million pizzas. That seems a bit much!

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