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!
