Mixed-race people become Brazil’s biggest population group

Census of 2022 shows that, in that year, about 92.1 million people (45.3% of the Brazilian population) declared themselves brown, a term used in Brazil to refer to miscegenation.

More Brazilians declared themselves as being biracial, country's statistics agency says

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — More Brazilians declared they are biracial than white last year, the country's statistics agency said on Friday, citing data from its most recent census.

Mixed-Race Brazilians Now Form the Largest Share of Population

People who declare themselves mixed-race now form the largest share of Brazil’s population, the first time they have made up a plurality of Latin America’s largest nation since its statistics agency began collecting such data in 1991.

Mixed-race people become Brazil’s biggest population group

Grouping that includes descendants of Indigenous Brazilians as well as of Africans now outnumbers white population

92,1 milhões de habitantes do país – ou seja, 45,3% de todos os brasileiros entrevistados - se declararam pardos Darcy Ribeiro já dizia que a beleza do Brasil é o seu colorido e a sua mestiçagem. Levou algumas décadas após o seu desaparecimento (17/02/1997) para que a população brasileira naturalizasse a sua fala e assumisse que em nossas veias corre o sangue mestiço. O dado saltou do último Censo Demográfico realizado pelo IBGE, em 2022, trazen…

For the first time in the country's history, the group surpasses those who define themselves as white, according to the latest published data corresponding to the 2022 Census