Share of police officers in Brazil 2023, by ethnicity

Published by Statista Research Department, Mar 11, 2025

In 2023, more than 36 percent of civilian and military officers in Brazil were white, followed by nearly 32 percent who were Pardo Brazilian. Almost 25 percent of the police force did not identify their ethnicity.

Share of civilian and military police in Brazil in 2023, by ethnicity

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Release date

February 2025

Region

Brazil

Survey time period

2023

Supplementary notes

*Other refers to people who claim to be of East and southeast Asian origin: Japanese, Chinese, Korean.

For this statistic, the values reported by the source have been converted into percentages and rounded.

Values for the military police can be found here. Values for the civilian police can be found here.

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