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Brazilian censuses do not use a "multiracial" category. Instead, the censuses use skin colour categories. Most Brazilians of visibly mixed racial origins self-identify as pardos. .[1] According to the 2022 census, "pardos" make up 92.1 million people or 45.3% of Brazil's population.[2]
According to some DNA researches, Brazilians predominantly possess some degree of mixed-race ancestry, though less than half of the country's population classified themselves as "pardos" in the census.[3] This is not seen as any kind of misclassification, since the census categories are not and do not intend to be, based on ancestry, but rather on skin colour.
- ^ "PNAD" (PDF) (in Portuguese). 2006. Retrieved 2007-09-14.
- ^ "Censo 2022: Pela 1ª vez, Brasil se declara mais pardo que branco; populações preta e indígena também crescem". 22 December 2023. Archived from the original on 22 December 2023. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
- ^ "Nação Mestiça - Movimento Pardo-Mestiço Brasileiro". Retrieved 27 June 2016.