In 2011, life expectancy at birth in Brazil was 74.08 years (74 years and 29 days), with increment of 0.31 years (3 months and 22 days) compared with figures in 2010 (73,76 years) and of 3.65 years (3 years, 7 months and 24 days) over the indicator of 2000. So, throughout the last 11 years, life expectancy at birth n Brazil increased, on the average, by 3 months and 29 days.  This increase in the last decade was bigger among men, 3.8 years, versus 3.4 years among women, which corresponded to an increment of 5 months and 23 days more for male than for the female population.

Even so, in 2011 a male newly-born baby would expect to live for 70.6 years, whereas women would live for 77.7 years.   These data are presented in the Mortality Tables of the Brazilian population for 2011, which encompasses population data from the 2010 Population Census, estimates on infant mortality based on the same census survey and information about official records of deaths by sex and age.   Census information was also used for revisions in the time series.

These data are presented in the Mortality Tables of the Brazilian population for 2011, which encompasses population data from the 2010 Population Census, infant mortality estimates  based on the same census survey and information about official records of deaths by sex and age.   Census information was also used for revisions in the time series.

Infant mortality rate (of children up to one year of age) in 2011 was 16.1 per one thousand infants born alive and child mortality rate (of children up to five years of age) was 18.7 per one thousand.  The survey about the occurrence of deaths in household, which was included in a Census questionnaire for the first time, made it possible to explore the potential of this type of census data, with the combination of information and variables related to the characteristics of households which recorded deaths in the last 12 months.  A possible combination factor is sewage disposal.  In housing units with a public system the infant mortality rate was 14.6 deaths per one thousand infants born alive and the child mortality rate, 16.8 deaths per each one thousand born alive, both rates below the respective national averages.  In housing units with a ditch, these rates rose to 21.0 per one thousand and 24,8 per one thousand respectively.

The child mortality rate for Brazil in 2010, revised with Census data, was estimated at 19.4 deaths for each one thousand born alive, reaching the objective for the fourth Millennium Development Goals (ODM) for 2015 (19.9 for one thousand).

The Complete Life Tables for Brazil are released by IBGE every year, usually by the 1st of December, in compliance with Article 2 of the Presidential Decree 3266 of November 29, 1999. The Tables, used by the Ministry of Social Security as one of the parameters to determine the social security factor and in the calculation of retirement pensions of the Social Security System, are available at

https://www.ibge.gov.br/english/estatistica/populacao/tabuadevida/2011/default.shtm

Besides life expectancy at birth, life tables also allow the calculation of mean length of life for each age, for both sexes and for each sex separately.  In 2010, a man 40 years of age would have, on the average, 35.1 more years of life, and a woman the same age, 40.1 years.  In 2011, a man 40 years of age would have, on the average, 35.3 more years of life, and a woman the same age, 40.1 years.  At 60 years of age, a man would have, in 2010, 19.3 more years, and a woman, 22.6 years; in 2011, mean life expectancy for a man at 60 would be 19.5 more years and for a woman, 22.8 years.

Infant mortality is bigger in housing units where a ditch is used for sewage disposal

The combination of information about deaths and conditions of housing units which took place after the 2010 Census evidenced that the type of sewage disposal is of fundamental importance to define levels of infant (children under 1 year of age) and child mortality (those under five years of age”      In housing units with a public sewage system, the infant mortality rate was 14.6 deaths in one year per one thousand infants born alive, and child mortality, 16.8 deaths of children under five years of age per one thousand born alive, that is, theses figures are significantly lower than those observed in housing units where the ditch was adopted: 21.0 per one thousand and 24.8 per lone thousand, respectively.

Brazil achieved the Millennium Development Goal of reducing child mortality in 2010

The revision of mortality rates based on data of the 2010 Census shows that Brazil has achieved, so far, the fourth Millennium Development Goal (ODM), which is to reduce by two-thirds, until 2012, the mortality of children under five years of age, having 1990 as the base-year for the start of this time series.  In 1990, this rate was 59.6 per one thousand and two-thirds of this figure would represent a decrease of 39.7 per one thousand, which would result in a rate of 19.9 per one thousand, in 2015.  The figure for child mortality rate revised for 2010 was 19.4 per one thousand, below this intended level.

Child mortality rate for Brazil, in 2011, was estimated at 16.1 deaths per one thousand, pointing to decrease of 76.7% in the period 1980/2011. The same was observed concerning child mortality rate (18.7 per one thousand in 2011), which means a decrease of 49% when compared with the figure of 2000, 36.6 per one thousand.