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]