In 2010, life expectancy at birth in Brazil was 73.48 years (73 years, 5 months and 24 days), an increase of 0.31 years (3 months and 22 days) compared with 2009 and of 3.03 years (3 years and 10 days) over the indicator in 2000.

Life expectancy at birth was 69.73 years for men and 77.32 years for women, a difference of 7.59 years (7 years, 7 months and 2 days).

Child mortality rate for Brazil in 2010 was estimated at 21.64 for every thousand of live births, showing a reduction of 28.03% along the decade.

More detailed information is available at the 2010 Complete Life Tables, released by IBGE until December 1^st of every year, in compliance with the 2^nd article of the Presidential Decree number 3,266, from November 29^th, 1999.

IBGE anticipates that the Life Tables of the Brazilian population for 2011, to be released on November 29^th, 2012, will incorporate the most recent information on population and deaths, by sex and age, from the 2010 Population Census and the Civil Registry Statistics of the same year. In addition to the update of mortality and life expectancy indicators, it will generate updated parameters of mortality in Brazil to be incorporated by the 2012 Review of the Projection of the Population in Brazil by Sex and Age, 1980 – 2050.

The Complete Life Tables in Brazil are used by the Ministry of Social Security as one of the parameters to determine the social security factor in the calculation of the retirements under the General Social Security System. They can be accessed on page

https://www.ibge.gov.br/english/estatistica/populacao/tabuadevida/2010/default.shtm

In addition to the life expectancy at birth, the Life Tables also allow the calculation of the average life for each age or group of ages as well as for either or both sexes.

In 2000, 40 year aged men would have, on average, more 33.70 years of life, while women with the same age, more 38.44 years. In 2010, 40 year aged men would have, on average, more 35.15 years of life, while women with the same age, more 40.22 years. At the age of 60, men in 2000 would have, on average, more 18.84 years, whereas women, more 21.70 years; in 2010, the average life expectancy for 60 year aged men would be by more 19.63 years and for women, by more 22.97 years.

Men have 4.5 more chances to die young than women

In 2010, the male over-mortality (relation between the probabilities of death for men and women, by age or groups of age) reached a peak at 22 years of age, when the chances of a man die was 4.5 bigger than a woman. In 2000, the probability of male death reached 4.0 times the female´s at this same age. The curve of over-mortality declines with the age, but even 70 year aged men have more than 1.5 chances to die than women.