Life expectancy in Brazil increased by 11.3 months last year compared to 2022, reaching 76.4 years and exceeding the pre-pandemic level (in 2019, the country reached 76.2 years). The data comes from the Mortality Table survey, released by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) this Friday (11/29).
According to the survey, the life expectancy of men is 73.1 years and that of women is 79.7 years. In addition, the research also shows that the infant mortality rate for children under 1 year of age was 12.5 deaths per thousand births, 13.5 for men and 11.4 for women. From 1940 to 2023, the infant mortality rate falls by 91.5%.
The mortality of children under 5 years of age, or infant mortality, remained stable in the last two years of the series. In 2022 and 2023, of every thousand live births, 14.7 would not reach 5 years of age. In 1940, this rate was 212.1, having been reduced by 93.1%.
“The increase in the number of deaths in Brazil and in the world with the coronavirus pandemic reduced life expectancy at birth in 2020 and 2021, reaching the level of 72.8 years in the last year (69.3 years for men and 76.4 years for women). The recovery of this indicator from 2022 reflects the reduction in excess deaths caused by the pandemic, for both sexes,” observes Izabel Marri, manager of Studies and Analysis of Demographic Dynamics at IBGE.
Also according to IBGE research, in the 20 to 24 age group, a 20-year-old man was 4.1 times more likely to not turn 25 than a woman in the same age group. “This phenomenon can be explained by the higher incidence of deaths from external or unnatural causes, which affect the male population more intensely,” the Institute quotes.
