The daily “Correio Braziliense”, citing them, specified that the government statistics concern both people who do not have any identity document, not even a birth certificate, as well as residents of the country who are not included in the register of citizens.
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How many people in Brazil do not have ID?
Where does the data on the lack of identity documents come from?
Where in Brazil are there a lot of people without ID documents?
Who helped Maria Imaculada Conceicao obtain the document?
According to Brasilia TV, one of the areas of this South American country where residents without ID are common is the metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro, in the southeast of Brazil. At least 200,000 of them live there.
Describing the phenomenon, the TV station noted that one of the people who recently collected an identity document in Brazil is Maria Imaculada Conceicao, a 70-year-old resident of the state of Ceara, in the north-east of the country.
The woman from the city of Caucaia received a birth certificate from the authorities of the state of Ceara at the beginning of November after a several-year-long battle for an identity document. The lonely woman, who had never met her parents and family members, was supported by one of her neighbors and the state ombudsman, Brasilia TV highlighted.
