Brazil is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the world, with cultures and identities that stem from Amerindians, Africans, Europeans and the different mixes between them. As well as the many different diasporas from around the world that moved to Brazil during the 19th and 20th century, more popularly the Japanese, German, Lebanese and Italian ones.
Ethnoracial groups The type of ethnic classification system used in the Brazilian census is the ethnoracial classification, which are based on self-identification and phenotypical characteristics such as skin color, hair texture and perceived social "race". These groups tend to not correlate with genetic composition, cultural lines or scientific definitions, as the existence of separate races in homo sapiens is largely rejected by geneticists. +GroupTotal population (2022)Percentage of population (2022)DistributionPardos92,083,28645.3%Entire national territory, more numerous in the North and Northeast of the countryBrancos88,252,12143.5%Entire national territory, more numerous in the South and Southeast of the countryPretos20,656,45810.2%Entire national territory, more numerous in the Northeast and Southeast of the countryAmarelos850,1300.4%Entire national territory, more numerous in the Southeast of the countryIndígenas1,227,6420.6%Entire national territory, more numerous in the North of the country
Pre-Cabralian groups
The "pre-Cabralian" peoples are the populations that already resided in the territory that would later become Brazil before the arrival of Pedro Álvares Cabral in the South American coast and the beginning of the Portuguese colonization process. The people were Amerindians, descendants of the first settlers of the Americas, who entered the continent coming from Siberia roughly 20 to 25 thousand years ago.
Many indigenous ethnic groups that lived in Brazil prior to 1500 no longer exist, as their populations plummeted and died out due to the diseases brought by the European colonizers from the old world or due to massacres, war, colonial frontier conflicts, slaver raids and other means of aggression and genocide committed against the Amerindian peoples through the centuries. As a result, the ethnic groups shown in the least below are only part of the total ethnic diversity present in Brazil before the modern era. Many of the peoples were assimilated and stripped of their original languages and religions.