Life expectancy by skin color or race in Brazil

Income, education, consumption and leisure are important elements of people’s well-being. A component so far ignored, due to the lack of data, is the difference between life expectancy between whites and non-whites in Brazil. The Institute for Mobility and Social Development (IMDS), in partnership with researchers from Cedeplar/UFMG, faced this challenge, a task that required the adoption of premises to combine data from the IBGE with mortality statistics from the Unified Health System (SUS).