Ethnic Map of Brazil By Municipality

Map created by geoglobal_The map above shows the ethnic breakdown of Brazil by municipality. The data comes from the 2022 Brazilian Census.

White is in blue, Mixed Race (called Brown in the census) in green, Indigenous in orange and Black in red.

Here are some of the highlights:

In 2022, approximately 92.1 million persons (or 45.3% of the country’s population) reported being brown. It was when that group became predominant for the first time since 1991.

Other 88.2 million (43.5%) reported being white, 20.6 million (10.2%), black, 1.7 million (0.8%), indigenous and 850.1 thousand (0.4%), Asian.

The North Region had the biggest percentage of brown persons (67.2%), and the South, the biggest percentage of white ones (72.6%) and the Northeast recorded the biggest percentage of black persons in their population (13.0%).

In 2022, 35.7% of the brown persons and 48.0% of the white ones in the country were in the Southeast.

Among the states, the biggest percentage of brown persons was in Pará (69.9%), of white persons, in Rio Grande do Sul (78.4%) and of black persons, in (22.4%).

The brown population was the majority in 3,245 municipalities in the country (or 58.3% of the total), whereas the indigenous population was the majority in 33 municipalities, and the black population, in nine other.

The white population was the majority in 2,283 municipalities (or 41% of the total), being half of those municipalities (or 1,143) in the South and 45.7% (or 1,044) in the Southeast.

Here’s an image of the breakdown by region: