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. 2020 Sep 16;8(5):1119–1129. doi: 10.1007/s40615-020-00868-7

Table 1.

Population residing in selected geographical units per race/color, 2010

Scale Race/color
Caucasian Black* Asian Mixed** Indigenous
n % N % n % n % n %
Brazil 91,051,646 47.7 14,517,961 7.6 2,084,288 1.0 82,277,333 43.1 817,963 0.4
North 3,720,168 23.4 1,053,053 6.6 173,509 1.0 10,611,342 66.8 305,873 1.9
Northeast 15,627,710 29.4 5,058,802 9.5 631,009 1.1 31,554,475 59.4 208,691 0.3
Southeast 44,330,981 55.1 6,356,320 7.9 890,267 1.1 28,684,715 35.6 97,960 0.1
South 21,490,997 78.4 1,109,810 4.0 184,904 0.6 4,525,979 16.5 74,945 0.2
Midwest 5,881,790 41.8 939,976 6.6 204,599 1.4 6,900,822 49.0 130,494 0.9
Paraná State 7,344,122 70.3 330,830 3.1 123,205 1.1 2,620,378 25.0 25,915 0.2
Santa Catarina State 5,246,868 83.97 183,857 2.94 26,017 0.42 775,558 12.4 16,041 0.2
Rio Grande do Sul State 8,900,007 83.22 595,123 5.57 35,682 0.33 1,130,043 10.5 32,989 0.3

*preto; **pardo. Source: Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics [27]