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| Year | |||||||
| Color or ethnicity* | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
| Blacks | 21.1 | 20.4 | 21.5 | 22.1 | 22.5 | 22.1 | 22.2 | 21.6 |
| Browns | 56.2 | 56.4 | 56.0 | 56.2 | 53.5 | 53.2 | 52.8 | 53.3 |
| Indigenous descendant | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.9 |
| Quilombo | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| Tribal Indians | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Other ethnicities | 21.3 | 21.7 | 20.9 | 20.3 | 22.7 | 23.6 | 23.8 | 23.9 |
| Total | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |