2022 Census: IBGE Releases First Results on Color or Race (IBGE, Brazil’s official statistics agency)
This is the primary source, in the Brazilian government’s own words. The 2022 census found 92.1 million Brazilians, 45.3% of the country, declaring themselves pardo, meaning mixed, making it Brazil’s largest group and putting it ahead of branco for the first time since 1991. The Black share rose to 10.2%, and the Indigenous count reached its highest recorded level. The agency announced the results in Salvador’s Pelourinho, the heart of the Blackest major city outside Africa, a venue that says this was understood as more than a spreadsheet. The country where mixed is the biggest box, documented at the source.