An estimated 371,529 Brazilian Americans resided in the U.S. as of the 2010 census. Approximately 800,000 Brazilians live in the U.S. From 1960 until the mid-1980s, between 1,500 and 2,300 Brazilian immigrants arrived in the U.S. each year. During the mid-1980s, an economic crisis struck Brazil. Between 1986 and 1990, approximately 1.4 million Brazilians emigrated to other parts of the world.
