Proportional mortality in Brazil’s indigenous population in the years 2000, 2010, and 2018

Abstract

Aim was to analyze indigenous mortality in Brazil in 2000, 2010 and 2018. Descriptive study about mortality among indigenous people that analyzed data from the Mortality Information System. Proportional mortality was calculated among indigenous and the remainder of the Brazilian population, according to age, sex, cause and regions of Brazil. In the years analyzed, proportional mortality among indigenous people was higher. Proportion of deaths in indigenous children under 1 year old in 2000, 2010 and 2018 was 15.3%, 17.7% and 16.2% and in Brazil 7.2%, 3.5% and 2.7%, respectively. Proportion of deaths over 50 years old among indigenous people in 2000, 2010 and 2018 was 47.0%, 48.1% and 52.0% and in Brazil 66.8%, 74.4% and 79.4%. In 2018, indigenous children under 1 year old died more from perinatal disorders (39.4%), infectious and parasitic diseases (10.1%) and external causes (9.8%). In children under 1 year old, from remainder of the Brazilian population, these causes corresponded to 57.8%, 3.8% and 2.8%. Indigenous people over 50 years old died more from circulatory (28.6%), respiratory (15.4%) and neoplasms (14.6%), and in Brazilian population these causes represent 31.5%, 13,6% and 19.0%. There were health inequalities and worse indicators among the indigenous peoples of Brazil.