Brazilians

Brazilians

Brasileiros
Total population
c. 203 million[1] (2022 census)
Regions with significant populations
Brazilian diaspora: c. 4.59 million (2022)[2]
United States	1,900,000[3]
Portugal	360,000[3]
Paraguay	254,000[3]
United Kingdom	220,000[3]
Japan	206,900[3]
Italy	157,000[3]
Spain	165,000[3]
Germany	160,000[3]
Canada	133,170[3]
Argentina	90,320[3]
France	90,000[a][3]
Switzerland	64,000[b][3]
French Guiana	91,500[3]
Australia	46,630[3]
Ireland	80,000[3]
Mexico	45,000[3]
Uruguay	59,090[3]
Belgium	40,000[3]
Bolivia	56,500[3]
Netherlands	76,500[3]
Suriname	30,000[3]
Languages
Portuguese (99.7%)[4]

Brazilians (Portuguese: Brasileiros, IPA: [bɾaziˈlejɾus]) are the citizens of Brazil. A Brazilian can also be a person born abroad to a Brazilian parent or legal guardian as well as a person who acquired Brazilian citizenship. Brazil is a multiethnic society, which means that it is home to people of many ethnic origins, and there is no correlation between one's stock and their Brazilian identity.

Being Brazilian is a civic phenomenon, rather than an ethnic one. As a result, the degree to which Brazilian citizens identify with their ancestral roots varies significantly depending on the individual, the region of the country, and the specific ethnic origins in question. Most often, however, the idea of ethnicity as it is understood in the anglophone world is not popular in the country.

After the colonization of Brazil by the Portuguese, most of the 16th century, the word "Brazilian" was given to the Portuguese merchants of the Brazilwood tree, designating exclusively the name of such profession, since the inhabitants of the land were, in most of them, indigenous, or Portuguese born in Portugal or in the territory now called Brazil.^[5]

However, long before the independence of Brazil, in 1822, both in Brazil and in Portugal, it was already common to assign the Brazilian gentile to a person, usually of clear Portuguese descent, resident or whose family resided in the State of Brazil (1530–1815), belonging to the Portuguese Empire. During the lifetime of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves (1815–1822), however, there was confusion about the nomenclature.

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