[Organization]

Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica (IBGE)

[Title]

2022 Census: for the first time, less than half of the families in Brazil are composed of couples with children

[Highlights]

• ​In 2022, for the first time, families formed by couples with children represented less than half of the total number of families in the country. The percentage of this type of composition dropped from 56.4%, in 2000, to 42.0% (or 24.3 million) of the total families in 2022.
• In the same period, couples without children were the type that increased the most, with a change from 13.0% in 2000 to 24.1% (or 13.9 million) in 2022.
• In 2022, Brazil had 72.3 million domestic units, of which 13.6 million were of the single person type and 57.8 million had two or more related persons, that is, were formed by families.
• In 2022, among the 57.8 million families in Brazil, 54.6 million (or 94.5%) were a single family and 3.2 million (or 4.5%) were two of more families together, called cohabiting families. The total of these cohabiting families reached 6.6 million in 2022.
• The proportion of women without a spouse and with children in the total of domestic units went from 11.6% in 2000 to 13.5% (or 7.8 million) in 2022. The percentage of men without a spouse and with children went from 1.5% to 2.0% (or 1.2 million, in 2022), in the period.
• From 2000 to 2022, the number of domestic units tripled, and changed from 4.1 million to 13.6 million (or 19.1% of the total housing units in Brazil).
• In 2022, the 13.6 million single person domestic units in the country were inhabited by 6,837 million men and 6.784 million women.
• From 2000 to 2022, the percentage of families with a male householder dropped from 77.8% to 51.2%. The percentage of families with a female householder increased from 22.2% to 48.8%.
• Between 2000 and 2022, the percentage of householders without schooling or with incomplete primary education dropped from 66.1% to 34.7%, whereas the percentage of householders with a higher education degree went from 6.3% to 17.4%.​

[URL]

https://agenciadenoticias.ibge.gov.br/en/agencia-news/2184-news-agency/news/44970-2022-census-for-the-first-time-less-than-half-of-the-families-in-brazil-are-composed-of-couples-with-children