• Brazil has the largest number of descendants of Africans, Portuguese, Italians, Lebanese and Japanese in the world.
• Brazil has the second largest number of descendants of black Africans, and the second largest number of descendants of Europeans in the world. That said, it also probably has the largest number of mixed-race/multiracial people in the world, with 45% of its population declaring themselves as pardo, which translates as “brown/mixed”.
• The vast majority of Brazilians (93%) do not live in the Amazon, and a significant proportion of them lives in lands characterized by wet-season tropical savannahs, semi-arid forest steppes and prairies. In fact, a majority of Brazilians has never set foot on the Amazon.