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  2. Brazilians - Wikipedia

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    From 1500 to 1972, of all people who entered Brazil, 58% came from Europe, 40% from Africa and 2% from Asia. [42] Most Brazilians have a mixed race ancestry. Genetic studies have shown that Brazilians, whether classified as "brown", "white" or "black", usually have all three ancestries (European, African and indigenous), varying only in degree.

  3. Demographics of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Brazil had an official resident population of 203 million in 2022, according to IBGE. [4] Brazil is the seventh most populous country in the world and the second most populous in the Americas and Western Hemisphere. Brazilians are mainly concentrated in the eastern part of the country, which comprises the Southeast, South, and Northeast.

  4. Race and ethnicity in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    It has the largest percentage of Asian Brazilians, composing 0.8%, and a small Amerindian community (0.2%). Southeast Brazil is home to the oldest Portuguese village in the Americas, São Vicente, São Paulo, established in 1532. [128] The region, since the beginning of its colonization, is a melting pot of Africans, Natives, and Europeans. The ...

  5. Brazil has 1.7 million Indigenous people, near double the ...

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    While just 0.8% of Brazil’s population, the figure marks an 89% jump from the nation’s prior census, in 2010, due to greater willingness of people to recognize their roots and better survey ...

  6. Afro-Brazilians - Wikipedia

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    Racial classifications in Brazil are based primarily on skin color and on other physical characteristics such as facial features, hair texture, etc. [23] This is a poor scientific indication of ancestry, because only a few genes are responsible for someone's skin color: a person who is considered White may have more African ancestry than a ...

  7. Culture of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Brazil is the world's second-largest user of Twitter (at 41.2 million tweeters), and the largest market for YouTube outside the United States. [130] In 2012, average time spent on Facebook increased 208% while global use declined by 2%. [130] In 2013, Brazil ranked the second highest number of Facebook users globally at 65 million. [130]

  8. Brazil socio-geographic division - Wikipedia

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    The South of Brazil is the region with the largest percentage of Whites. According to the 2005 census, people of European ancestry account for 79.6% of the population. [2] In colonial times, this region had a very small population. The region what is now Southern Brazil was originally settled by Amerindian peoples, mostly Guarani and Kaingangs. [3]

  9. Pardo Brazilians - Wikipedia

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    The results, published by the scientific magazine 'American Journal of Human Biology' by a team from the Catholic University of Brasília, show that, in Brazil, physical indicators such as skin, eye, and hair color have little to do with the genetic ancestry of each person, as has been shown in previous studies". [16] "Ancestry informative SNPs ...