Demographics of Brazil
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Brazil had an official resident population of 203 million in 2022, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. Brazil is the seventh most populous country in the world and the se
Population density, administrative divisions and economic regions of Brazil (1977)
Race and ethnicity in Brazil
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Brazilian society is made up of a confluence of people of Indigenous, Portuguese, and African descent. Other major significant groups include Italians, Spaniards, Germans, Lebanese, Eastern Europeans,
Demographics of Brazil
…The largest population of Buddhists in Latin America lives in Brazil, due greatly to Brazil's large Japanese population. Race and ethnicity in Brazil Demographics of Rio de Janeiro…
The Brazilian people are multi-ethnic. First row: White (Portuguese, German, Italian, Arab respectively) and Japanese Brazilians. Second row: Black, Pardo (cafuzo, mulato and caboclo, respectively) and Native Brazilians.
Portuguese immigrants arriving in Rio de Janeiro
European immigrants arriving in São Paulo
A Redenção de Cam (Redemption of Ham), Modesto Brocos, 1895, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes. The painting depicts a black grandmother, mulatta mother, white father and their quadroon child, hence three generations of hypergamy through racial whitening.