Unlike previous years, the study is based on the 2022 Demographic Census instead of revised population projections from 2018, derived from the 2010 Census.
The effects of COVID-19 not considered, life expectancy for men was reported at 73.3 years in 2020. For women, it stood at 80.3 years.
Life expectancy among men went from 72.8 years in 2018 to 73.1 in 2019, and from 79.9 to 80.1 among women.
Life expectancy in Brazil went up to 76.3 years in 2018, as per recently released data from the government’s statistics agency IBGE.
In 2017, life expectancy stood at 76, some three months less than in 2018.
Brazilians’ life expectancy went from 75.8 to 76 years from 2016 to 2017—an increase of three months and 11 dys. The figure was published Thursday (Nov. 29) by the government’s statistics institute IBGE.