Brazil Mortality 2017: Deaths by Age and Life Expectancy

Life expectancy at birth in Brazil was 75.4 years in 2017: 78.8 for women and 72.1 for men, a gap of 6.7 years. 1,280,587 people died; 57.7% of them were 65 or older and 3.5% children under five. The most common age at death was 75-79. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 2017

Life expectancy at birth

75.4

Women

78.8

Men

72.1

Life expectancy at 65

17.8

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

13.4

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

15.4

Deaths

1,280,587

Deaths per 1,000 people

6.3

Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)

179

Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2017's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 2017

Deaths per 1,000 people per year in each age group. Logarithmic scale: each gridline is ten times the one below. Hover for exact values.

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Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	11.87	15.27	78.8	72.1
1-4	0.48	0.53	78.7	72.2
5-9	0.19	0.26	74.9	68.3
10-14	0.24	0.36	69.9	63.4
15-19	0.46	2.11	65.0	58.5
20-24	0.55	2.88	60.2	54.1
25-29	0.63	2.51	55.3	49.9
30-34	0.86	2.53	50.5	45.5
35-39	1.26	2.95	45.7	41.0
40-44	1.77	3.67	41.0	36.6
45-49	2.64	5.02	36.3	32.2
50-54	3.90	7.25	31.7	28.0
55-59	5.79	10.49	27.3	23.9
60-64	8.94	15.96	23.0	20.0
65-69	13.44	23.34	19.0	16.5
70-74	22.06	34.99	15.1	13.2
75-79	39.71	56.86	11.6	10.2
80-84	71.13	88.79	8.6	7.8
85-89	124.01	137.63	6.1	5.8
90-94	194.62	203.88	4.4	4.3
95-99	291.08	289.06	3.2	3.2
100+	421.96	404.42	2.4	2.5

Mortality in Brazil by year

Mortality in Brazil, 2017

Year

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