Back برازيليون لبنانيون Arabic Inmigración libanesa en Brasil Spanish Brazíliai libanoniak Hungarian レバノン系ブラジル人 Japanese Imigração libanesa no Brasil Portuguese Lebanese Brazilians SCO
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 Lebanese Brazilians in Nova Friburgo, late 19th century | |
| Total population | |
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| ≈1 Million (by descent)[1][2] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Brazil: Mainly in São Paulo State, Minas Gerais, Goiás, Rio de Janeiro, Paraná, Ceará, Bahia, Amazonas, Pernambuco, Maranhão, Piauí. | |
| Languages | |
| Brazilian Portuguese, Lebanese Arabic | |
| Religion | |
| Roman Catholicism 65%, Eastern Orthodox Church 30%, Shia Islam, Sunni Islam, Druze 5% | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Other Arab Brazilians and Asian Brazilians |
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Lebanese Brazilians (Portuguese: Líbano-brasileiros), (Arabic: البرازيليون اللبنانيون) are Brazilians of full or partial Lebanese ancestry, including Lebanese-born immigrants to Brazil. According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, they form some of the largest Asian communities in the country, along with other West Asian and East Asian descendants.[3]
Contemporary data on the number of Arab descendants in Brazil is highly inconsistent. The national IBGE census has not questioned the ancestry of the Brazilian people for several decades, considering that immigration to Brazil declined almost to 0 in the second half of the 20th century. In the last census questioning ancestry, in 1940, 107,074 Brazilians said they were the children of a Syrian, Lebanese, Palestinian, Iraqi or Arab father. The native Arabs were 46,105 and the naturalized Brazilians, 5,447. Brazil had 41,169,321 inhabitants at the time of the census, so Arabs and children were 0.38% of Brazil's population in 1940. Currently, many sources cite that millions of Brazilians are of Arab descent. Itamaraty claims that there are between 7 and 10 million Lebanese descendants in Brazil. However, independent research, based on the interviewee's self-declaration, found much smaller numbers. According to a 2008 IBGE survey, 0.9% of the white Brazilians interviewed said they had a family background in Western Asia, which would give about one million people. According to another 1999 survey by the sociologist and former president of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) Simon Schwartzman, only 0.48% of the interviewed Brazilians claimed to have Arab ancestry, a percentage that, in a population of about 200 million of Brazilians, would represent around 960 thousand people. [4]
- ^ "Fora de foco: diversidade e identidades étnicas no Brasil - Monografias.com".
- ^ "Lebanon: Geography". Embassy of Lebanon in Brazil (in Portuguese). 1996. Archived from the original on 29 May 2008.
- ^ Petruccelli, Jose Luis; Saboia, Ana Lucia. "Caracteristicas Etnico-raciais da Populacao Classificacoes e identidades" (PDF). IBGE. p. 53. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
descendentes e os asiáticos – japoneses, chineses, coreanos, libaneses, sírios, entre outros
- ^ Dyke, Joe (3 July 2014). "How the Lebanese conquered Brazil". Executive.