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==Demography==
According to estimates from 2020 the municipal population was 668,949 making it the third most populous city in the state of Minas Gerais, after Belo Horizonte and Uberlândia.<ref name="IBGE2" />

The population is very young with 86% of the population being less than 50 years old.

Education indicators:
*adults with up to 10 years of education: 23.67%
*young people between 10 and 14 years old attending school: 96.8%
*adults with no formal schooling: 5.21%
*young people ages between 15 and 17 enrolled in secondary education:   83.7%
*adults who have studied some university: 23%
*illiteracy rate for adults over 25: 7%

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#009966;" colspan="2"
!<span style="color:green;">Color/Race</span>
!<span style="color:green;">Percentage</span>
|-
|[[Pardo Brazilian|Mixed]]
|48.6%
|-
|[[White Brazilian|White]]
|38.9%
|-
|[[Afro-Brazilian|Black]]
|10.1%
|-
|[[Asian Brazilian|Asian]]
|1.3%
|-
|[[Indigenous peoples in Brazil|Amerindian]]
|0.1%
|}
''Source: Census 2010''