Indigenous peoples in Brazil

Native Brazilians
Brasileiros Indígenas
Indigenous brazilians (alone/one race only) in 2022
Total population
Increase 1,227,642 (2022 census)[1]
Increase 0.60% of the Brazilian population
Regions with significant populations
Predominantly in the North and Central-West
Languages
Indigenous languages, Portuguese
Religion
Indigenous religion, animism. 61.1% Roman Catholic, 19.9% Protestant, 11% non-religious, 8% other beliefs.[2]
Related ethnic groups
Other Indigenous peoples of the Americas

The Indigenous peoples in Brazil are the peoples who lived in Brazil before European contact around 1500 and their descendants. Indigenous peoples once comprised an estimated 2,000 district tribes and nations inhabiting what is now Brazil. The 2010 Brazil census recorded 305 ethnic groups of Indigenous people who spoke 274 Indigenous languages; however, almost 77% speak Portuguese.[3]

Historically, many Indigenous peoples of Brazil were semi-nomadic and combined hunting, fishing, and gathering with migratory agriculture. Many tribes faced extinction as a result of European settlement, and many others were assimilated into the general Brazilian population.

The Indigenous population was decimated by European diseases, declining from a pre-Columbian high of 2 million to 3 million to approximately 300,000 by 1997, distributed among 200 tribes. According to the 2022 IBGE census, 1,693,535 Brazilians classified themselves as Indigenous, and the census recorded 274 Indigenous languages spoken by 304 different Indigenous ethnic groups.[4][5]

On 18 January 2007, Fundação Nacional do Índio reported 67 remaining uncontacted tribes in Brazil, up from 40 known in 2005. With this increase, Brazil surpassed New Guinea, becoming the country with the largest number of uncontacted peoples in the world.[6]

  1. ^ "Tabela 9605: População residente, por cor ou raça, nos Censos Demográficos". sidra.ibge.gov.br. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
  2. ^ (in Portuguese) Study Panorama of religions. Fundação Getúlio Vargas, 2003.
  3. ^ "Indigenous peoples in Brazil". International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  4. ^ Vieceli, Leonardo (7 August 2023). "Brasil tem quase 1,7 milhão de indígenas, aponta Censo 2022". UOL (in Brazilian Portuguese). Folha de S.Paulo. Archived from the original on 7 August 2023. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
  5. ^ "IBGE | Indígenas | Brasil indígena | língua falada". indigenas.ibge.gov.br. IBGE. Archived from the original on 29 March 2024. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
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