United by language, separated by inequality

These were some of the data presented by Ann Lindstrand, a Swedish pediatrician who speaks in very reasonable Portuguese and is a representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Cape Verde. The scenario is even worse when thinking in planetary terms. According to the entity, the disparity in life expectancy between nations reaches 33 years; In the poorest, the mortality rate of children under 5 years of age is 13 times higher. In Brazil, while it is estimated that a nonwhite man in Alagoas lives 66.7 years, a white woman in Santa Catarina can live, on average, 80.9 years. The data are from the Institute for Mobility and Social Development in partnership with Cedeplar/UFMG.