Mixed-Race Brazilians Now Form the Largest Share of Population
- 45.3% identified as mixed-race in 2022, new data shows
- Black Brazilian population rises to 10.2%, from 7.6% in 2010
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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 Brazilians accounted for 45.3% of the country’s overall population in 2022, slightly above the 43.5% that identified as White, according to new data released Friday by IBGE, the national statistics agency. The share of Brazilians who identify as Black rose to 10.2%, from 7.6% in the last census in 2010, the data showed.