“…In December 2018, the 709 existing Undergraduate Courses in Nutrition were distributed among the 27 states of the Federation [19], with a slight change occurring among the ten largest concentrations per state: São Paulo (158 courses or 22.3% of the total number), Rio de Janeiro (76 or 10.7%), Minas Gerais (71 or 10.0), Bahia (59 or 8.3%), Rio Grande do Sul (37 or 5.2%), Paraná (34 or 4.8%), Pernambuco (31 or 4.4%), Ceará (25 or 3.5%), Santa Catarina (24 or 3.5%) and Goiás (20 or 2.8%) ( Table 2). Table 2, the ten states where the highest absolute increases occurred in the number of attendance courses of Nutrition Graduation between August 2009 and December 2018 were: São Paulo (50), Rio de Janeiro (43), Bahia (40), Pernambuco (23), Ceará (20), Rio Grande do Sul (16), Mato Grosso (12), Santa Catarina and Paraíba (11), Distrito Federal, Maranhão, Pará and Sergipe (10). In terms of relative increases, the ten states that verified the highest results were: In 2009, 56.5% of the Nutrition Courses were concentrated in the Southeast Region of Brazil [3], which remained the region with the highest number of courses in 2018, with 44.6% of the total.…”