IBGE: Only 24% of Brazilian Cities Have Offices for Racial-Equality Policy

Overview

• The IBGE’s 2024 Estadic and Munic surveys report 1,331 municipalities, or 24% of cities, with dedicated structures, with the Northeast highest at about 32% and the South lowest at about 15%.
• Municipal formalization remains sparse, with 925 cities (16.7%) citing any related legislation and only 133 (2.4%) having a Municipal Plan of Racial Equality.
• State coverage is reported as operational nationwide in one account, while another notes 26 states with registered structures and missing data for Minas Gerais.
• Leadership shows imbalances: at the state level managers are mostly women and racially identified as white in 11 units, black in nine, parda in five, and indigenous in one; in cities, managers are 48% white, 15.3% black, 35.7% parda, with 102 self-declared quilombola managers, most in the Northeast.
• In public hiring, only 686 of 2,483 municipalities that held exams in the prior two years reserved vacancies for target groups (27.6%), and most of these reservations were limited to black candidates.