The average life expectancy of Brazilians increased to 76.4 years in 2023. This was revealed by a survey by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), published in the Official Gazette of the Union (DOU), this Friday (29). . According to the study titled Mortality TablesThere was an increase of 0.9 years compared to the year 2022, which was 75.5 years.
Compared to 1940, when life expectancy for men and women was 45.5 years, there was an increase of 30.9 years, being 30.2 years for men and 31.4 years for women. The survey estimates expectations regarding the exact ages of people up to 80 years old, using July 1 as the starting point for each year. Information from Brazilians of both sexes is used.
COVID-19 pandemic
The increase shows the resumption of growth in Brazilian life expectancy. It is the first time that the data shows an index higher than the estimated value in the pre-pandemic period. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, the rate was 76.2 years. In 2020, the average value fell to 74.8 years. In 2021 this value was reduced to 72.8 years. With the end of the pandemic in 2022, this value rose to 75.5 years. Followed by 76.4 years, according to the latest published study.
According to the IBGE, the drop in Brazilian life expectancy in 2020 and 2021 was mainly due to high mortality during the Covid-19 pandemic.
“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)”says Izabel Marri, manager of Studies and Analysis of Demographic Dynamics at IBGE.
At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, between 2020 and 2021, life expectancy in Brazil reached 72.8 years (Photo: reproduction/Pedro Vilela/Getty Images Embed)
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The Mortality Tables 2023 survey arises from the IBGE projection of the Brazilian population during the period from 2000 to 2070. The data allow tracking the mortality patterns of people and have been used to establish the parameters for the calculation of mortality factors. social security, related to workers. pensions from the General Social Security Regime (RGPS).
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