Brazil's life expectancy rose from 67.7 yrs in 1995 to 76.0 yrs in 2024.
Brazil · Health
Longevity, mortality, health system capacity and risk factors.
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Brazil's healthy life expectancy at birth rose from 60.9 yrs in 2000 to 61.8 yrs in 2021.
Brazil's infant mortality fell from 39.9 ‰ in 1995 to 12.3 ‰ in 2024.
Brazil's under-5 mortality rate fell from 47.7 ‰ in 1995 to 14.2 ‰ in 2024.
Brazil's maternal mortality ratio fell from 108.0 /100k in 1994 to 67.0 /100k in 2023.
Brazil's ncd mortality fell from 20.8 % in 2000 to 14.5 % in 2021.
Brazil's suicide mortality rate rose from 4.2 /100k in 2000 to 7.6 /100k in 2021.
Brazil's mortality caused by road traffic injury fell from 19.7 /100k in 2000 to 16.0 /100k in 2019.
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- Health spendingup +0.3 pts30th of 192
- Current health expenditure per capita (current US$)up +15.9 %63rd of 191
- Out-of-pocket expenditure (% of current health expenditure)down −1.0 pts85th of 192
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- Physiciansup +7.6 %25th of 63
- Nurses and midwivesdown −2.4 %25th of 79
- Hospital bedsup +1.2 %71st of 127*
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- Immunization, measles (% of children ages 12–23 months)up +6.0 pts74th of 192
- Immunization, DPT (% of children ages 12–23 months)up +1.0 pts93rd of 192
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- Prevalence of HIV (ages 15–49)unchanged +0.0 pts93rd of 148
- Incidence of tuberculosisunchanged +0.0 %115th of 208
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- Safe drinking waterup +0.7 pts65th of 148
- Safe sanitationup +0.9 pts78th of 141