For anyone with some knowledge of the Brazilian population, to suggest the country is predominantly multiracial is uncontroversial, but only now has it been made official, with data from the 2022 census.
With the latest census data released by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), multiracial people outnumber any other group in the country for the first time in the current historical series, making up 45 percent of the total population.
However, some Brazilian statistical nuances must be understood to fully comprehend the significance of this finding. Race is self-identified in the Brazilian census, adhering to four categories: black, white, indigenous,