IBGE study reveals that life expectancy in Brazil has risen to 76.4 years

The average life expectancy of Brazilians rose to 76.4 years in 2023. This is what a survey by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) revealed, 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.

In relation to the year 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 in relation to the exact ages of individuals up to 80 years old, using July 1st 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 value estimated in the pre-pandemic period. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, the index 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, revealed in the latest study released.

According to 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 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)”, points out Izabel Marri, manager of Studies and Analysis of Demographic Dynamics at IBGE.

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_{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 2023 Mortality Tables survey comes from the IBGE projection of the Brazilian population during the period from 2000 to 2070. The data makes it possible to trace people's mortality patterns and has been used to establish the parameters for calculating social security factors, relating to workers' pensions under the General Social Security Regime (RGPS).

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