More Brazilians declared themselves as being biracial, country's statistics agency says
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Brazil's statistics agency says more Brazilians declared themselves as being biracial than white last year
RIO DE JANEIRO -- 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.
In 2010, when the previous census was made in Brazil, 47.7% of the population declared as white while 43.1% identified as biracial.
IBGE said it was the first time since 1991 that these demographics appear in the South American nation, where millions of Blacks and Indigenous peoples have endured racism since their ancestors were enslaved.
Brazil's official statistics agency describes the country's racial demographics split into groups named as white, black, brown, yellow and Indigenous. Brown refers to biracial and yellow to Asian descendants.
