The National Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) indicates that 64.6% of slum residents, or about 10.4 million people, lived on stretches of roads without trees in 2022, while 35.4% lived in places with trees.
In places outside slums and urban communities, 69% lived on areas of vegetated roads.
Moreover, according to the survey, 10.5% of residents of slums and urban communities live on roads with this type of tree, while 33.5% of residents outside slums and urban communities live in environments with this characteristic.
Data is from the 2022 Census, which was released on Friday (5/12).
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The research provided data on population distribution in relation to afforestation by color or ethnicity of residents residing in slums and urban communities.
According to IBGE, among self-declared black residents, 68% live in areas with no trees, while 9.4% of this population lives in areas with five or more trees.
64.4% of people of color or mixed race live in areas with no trees, and 10.4% in places with five or more trees. The percentage of people of color or whites who lived in treeless areas was 63.2%, and 11.4% lived in places with five or more trees.
For the Head of the Slum and Urban Community Support Sector, Larissa Katala, the proportion of people who declared themselves to be black or of the black race and lived on stretches of treeless roads was 4.8 points higher than the proportion of people who declared themselves to be white or of the white race and lived on roads with this characteristic.
“With regard to the presence of trees, the International Institute of Vital Statistics classified the information into three categories: ‘one or two trees’, ‘three or four trees’, and ‘five or more trees’. In all of them, the percentage was slightly lower for the black population, indicating possible inequality with regard to this aspect in all of these areas.”
The survey shows that among the country’s 20 largest slums and urban communities by population, Sol Nacente, in Brasilia, was the only one where more than 70% of residents lived on stretches of tree-filled roads, at 70.7%.
Confirms the lineage of other slums:
- Rio das Piedras – Rio de Janeiro (RJ) 3.5%
- Cidade de Deus/Alfredo Nascimento, in Manaus (AM), 12%
- Paraísopolis, in São Paulo (SP), 12%
- Rocinha, in Rio de Janeiro (RJ), 12.3%
- Heliopolis, in São Paulo (SP), 18%