The number of deaths in Brazil jumped 16.9% with the covid-19 pandemic in 2021. The percentage was higher than in 2020, when there was an increase of 15.3%. In the ten years before the pandemic, the annual average of deaths in Brazil was 1.1%. In 2021 alone, more than 420,000 Brazilians died from the disease, twice as many as in 2020. The data are part of the Social Indicators Synthesis (SIS): an analysis of the living conditions of the Brazilian population in 2022, released today (2), in Rio de Janeiro, by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). In 2020 and 2021, Brazil had 22.3 million cases of covid-19 and more than 600,000 deaths caused by the disease. There were 7.7 million cases and approximately 200,000 deaths in 2020 and 14.6 million cases and 420,000 deaths in 2021. According to the publication, the analysis of mortality caused by the pandemic showed an expansion of 102.3% in deaths between 2020 and 2021. Most deaths occurred among men, reaching 57.2% in 2020 and 55.5% in 2021. In the second year of the pandemic, there was a 105.2% increase in deaths among women. Skin color The groups most affected by covid in 2020, according to the SIS, were black or brown men (27.5%) and white men (27.2%), followed by white women (21.5%) and black or brown women (19.6%). In 2021, this distribution changed: white men were the majority (30.8%), followed by white women (25.3%), black or brown men (22.8%) and black or brown women (17.8% ). The data also show the impacts of vaccination. The incidence of covid began to decrease from mid-June 2021, when vaccination with the first dose reached 30.4% of the population. The incidence rate showed a downward trend, registering 240.3 per 100,000. This level of vaccination also contributed to slowing down the trajectory of the mortality rate. In regional terms, the publication shows that there were differences both in terms of population coverage of municipal policies, and in terms of the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths related to covid. In the Southeast region, for example, 90.7% of the population lived in municipalities where the number of beds was expanded to meet the demand for hospitalization due to covid. In the Northeast region, this percentage drops to 81.6%. Fewer beds According to SIS, the number of hospital beds in the Unified Health System (SUS) per thousand inhabitants fell from 2010 to 2021, from 1.73 SUS beds (Unified Health System) in 2010 to 1.47 in 2021. The lowest value was observed in 2019: 1.42 beds. The rate of non-SUS beds per thousand beneficiaries of health plans was 8.93 in 2010 and rose to 4.86 beds in 2021. and equipment may be lagging behind population growth”, says the Summary. SIS gathers indicators that help in a broad knowledge of the social reality in Brazil. The publication uses data from IBGE studies, such as the Continuous National Household Sample Survey (PNAD) and the Municipal Basic Information Survey, in addition to data from external sources such as the Ministry of Health and the National Supplementary Health Agency (ANS). , and information from international organizations such as the United Nations (UN) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
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