Ethnic/Racial Disparity in Mortality from COVID-19: Data for the Year 2020 in Brazil

  • dos Santos M
  • Oliveira Penteado J
  • de Lima Brum R
  • et al.
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The study aimed to investigate ethnic/racial disparities in COVID-19 mortality in Brazilian federative units and their respective capitals in 2020. Population data and number of COVID-19 deaths were extracted by skin color (white, black, brown and indigenous) from all Brazilian states and their respective capitals. The mortality rate of COVID-19 by ethnicity in Brazilian states was higher between people from brown skin color, followed by indigenous and black. Only in one state, in the Federal District and in the federal capital, age-standardized mortality rates were higher among white’s people. There is a high percentage of deaths from COVID-19 higher than expected among non-white individuals, especially in south-central states and capitals of the country. Mortality from COVID-19 affect ethnic-racial groups unevenly in Brazil and the number of excess deaths among non-whites was over 9000. Urgent government measures are needed to reduce the racial disparity in health indicators in Brazil.

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dos Santos, M., Oliveira Penteado, J., de Lima Brum, R., da Silva Bonifácio, A., Florêncio Ramires, P., de Franceschi Gariboti, D., … da Silva Júnior, F. M. R. (2023). Ethnic/Racial Disparity in Mortality from COVID-19: Data for the Year 2020 in Brazil. Spatial Demography, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40980-022-00112-2

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