AHC: Bigger Brazilian Population

This might require After 1900 PODs but since Before 1900 PODs would be used to I'll put this thread right here.

Get the Brazilian Population to be larger than OTL basically.
 
Well, it's quite populous as it is, and experienced massive growth last century. In 1900 Brazil had 17 million people; today it has over 200 million. Given that it was colonized by a small European state that sent a very large share of its population abroad as it was, one could argue that OTL is practically a Brazil-wank.
 
Bigger incentives for immigration would do a lot for that. In 1850's began the first big effort to bring Europeans for the coffee producing regions in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. It happened when the law Eusébio de Queirós abolished for good our participation the Atlantic Slave Trade (some smuggling continued for a few years, but the Royal Navy took good care of them), and our Coffee and Cotton needed more cheap labor to keep the expansion.

However, conditions in some of the first farms to receive Germans and Swiss were so bad that word got out to Europe, doing wonders to retard immigration for a generation or so. Don't know much of the details, but if we had something like the massive propaganda machine American industrialists had, we might have seen even more immigration to Brazil.

Brazil endured a massive babyboom in the last century, and we are full of problems with inequality and everything it brings (violence (50 THOUSANDS dead by year by homicide, and i'm not speaking of the general terror in some cities, like my own), emigration for cities..), i'm not really sure that it would be a good thing.
 
In the colonial era, Brazil received far more settlers than the United States did. The problem was that these settlers had a far greater mortality rate due, in large part, to tropical diseases.

The easiest way to mitigate this would an earlier introduction of Quinine as a prophylactic against Malaria. That should reign in the mortality rate, and enable greater population growth without even necessitating greater migration.
 
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