Sao Paulo in Numbers

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!