Brazil census identifies a much larger Indigenous population

Under the new count, Indigenous people make up 0.83 per cent of the South American country's total population of 203 million, up from 0.47 percent at the previous census, said the national statistics institute, IBGE.

Brazil's count of its Indigenous population rose by 89 per cent from 2010 to 2022, to nearly 1.7 million people. (AFP/Getty Images)