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

The Associated Press
Mauricio Savarese
Published Dec 22, 2023  •  1 minute read
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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.

Agency IBGE said in a statement that about 92.1 million people _ which is about 45.3% of the country’s population — consider themselves biracial. Another 88.2 million Brazilians, or 43.5% of the population, said they are white.

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In 2010, when the previous census was made in Brazil, 47.7% of the population declared as white while 43.1% identified as biracial.