Brazil's Indigenous population double the size previously recorded - census

FILE PHOTO: Indigenous Kayapó women during an event on the Amazon in Belém 04/08/2023 REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino/File Photo

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's has 1.69 million Indigenous people, almost twice as many as previously acknowledged by the state, according to numbers announced on Monday by the national statistics agency IBGE from the 2022 census.

In 2010, the IBGE had counted 896,917 indigenous people.