In 2021, nearly 77 percent of women who had founded start-ups in Brazil were white. Meanwhile, Brazilians with mixed white-black ethnic ancestry or brown-skinned totaled 13.3 percent of female start-up founders. Other minorities represented only a small percentage of the total. Furthermore, health and biotech was the most popular sector among start-ups founded by women in Brazil.
Distribution of female startups founders in Brazil in 2021, by ethnicity
* This category includes people with various shades of brown skin. According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), brown-skinned people ('pardos') are Brazilians with mixed ethnic ancestry.
Percentage points exceeding 100 percent are probably due to rounding.
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