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Life expectancy in São Paulo, the main focus of the pandemic in Brazil, fell in 2020 for the first time since 1940 due to coronavirus deaths, which confirms the trend of demographic reversion caused by the virus, concludes an official study.

The figures were revealed by the Sedae Foundation, an organ of the government of the state of São Paulo, which indicated that “in 2020, life expectancy fell by one year” among the paulistas.

At least 88,528 of the nearly 375,000 Brazilians killed by covid-19 are from the state of São Paulo, most affected by the pandemic and with a population of nearly 46 million, similar to Argentina, contributes a third of the gross domestic product (GDP) of Argentina’s main trading partner.

According to the report, The average life expectancy in the state of São Paulo has fallen to 75.4 years after reaching 76.4 in 2019. The first record of life expectancy dates from 1940 and it has never stopped growing.

“The rapid increase in death rates, with the spread of the pandemic, directly affect the levels of demographic longevity, returning to the figures observed between 2012 and 2013 “, says the report.

São Paulo’s 2020 life expectancy figures confirm the March and April trend across Brazil, namely that the demographic shift caused by the pandemic it is a fact, causing more deaths than births.