Jales is a municipality in the state of

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. The population in 2020, according to the

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, is 49,201 inhabitants. The city is located 601 km from the city of

. It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jales.Diocese of Jales
Giga Catholic information

History

The city was founded on April 15, 1941.

Demographics

Statistics

*Area: 368.5 km² *

Population density Population density (in agriculture: standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geographical term.Matt RosenberPopul ...

: 127.57/km² (IBGE/2010) - 222.90/km² (SEADE/2011) *Urbanization: 94.1% (2010) *

Sex ratio The sex ratio (or gender ratio) is usually defined as the ratio of males to females in a population. As explained by Fisher's principle, for evolutionary reasons this is typically about 1:1 in species which reproduce sexually. Many species devia ...

(Males to Females): 95.4 (2011) *

Birth rate The birth rate for a given period is the total number of live human births per 1,000 population divided by the length of the period in years. The number of live births is normally taken from a universal registration system for births; populati ...

: 10.77/1,000 inhab. (2009) *

Infant mortality Infant mortality is the death of young children under the age of 1. This death toll is measured by the infant mortality rate (IMR), which is the probability of deaths of children under one year of age per 1000 live births. The under-five morta ...

: 15.8/1,000 births (2009) *Homicide rate: 4.0/100 thousand ppl (2008) *

HDI The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistic composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, wh ...

: 0.804 (

UNDP The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)french: Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human dev ...

/2000) All statistics are from SEADE and IBGE.

Economy

The

Tertiary sector The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector (raw materials) and the second ...

corresponds to 72.6% of the Jales GDP. Industry has a participation of 23,51%, and the

Primary sector The primary sector of the economy includes any industry involved in the extraction and production of raw materials, such as farming, logging, fishing, forestry and mining. The primary sector tends to make up a larger portion of the economy in de ...

corresponds to 3.89% of the GDP.

Notable people

* Régis Augusto Salmazzo Football player

References

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