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Answer & explanation
The official answer, with Fermi’s reasoning step by step.
Answer & explanation
Official answer
250,000,000
people
How to estimate it
Fermi’s official “Napkin math”
Start with Brazil, about 200 million people, nearly all of them raised speaking Portuguese. Portugal adds another 10 million. How many more in Angola, Mozambique and everywhere else? Maybe 20 million.
- Brazil
- 200,000,000
- Portugal
- + 10,000,000
- Angola, Mozambique and the rest
- + 20,000,000
- 200M + 10M + 20M
- ≈ 230,000,000
Rounded assumptions may give a slightly different estimate. The official answer above is the game’s reference value.
Source calculation & reference
- Brazil, native speakers (2022)
- ≈ 203,000,000
- Angola, Mozambique, Portugal and the rest
- + 36,000,000
- Country-by-country sum
- ≈ 239,000,000
- Ethnologue 2026, first-language speakers
- ≈ 252,000,000
Reference cited by Fermi: Ethnologue (2026 edition): about 252 million first-language Portuguese speakers
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