The Çarê-IEPS Bulletin No. 2/2023, Health of the Black Population: Mortality and Motorcycle Accidents, provides information on the health of the black population, focusing on the evolution of the number of motorcycle accidents with a racial breakdown.

Until 2015, records from the Hospital Information System (SIH) showed that mortality rates for black and white people were relatively parallel in Brazil. However, with the arrival of digital platforms and the significant increase in delivery workers, these figures have undergone marked changes.

Since 2016, the total number of accidents has increased steadily. When the data is analyzed from a racial perspective, the increase in mortality among the black population was considerably higher: in 2016, for example, there were 48 deaths of white people per 100,000 inhabitants, increasing to 55 per 100,000 in 2021; while for black people, in 2016, there were 75 deaths in accidents per 100,000 inhabitants, rising to 102 people per 100,000 inhabitants in 2021.

Hospitalization rates, ICU occupancy rates, and other types of consequences and complications were also considerably higher for the Black population compared to the white population. Here, there are indications of a racial link between the increase in app-based delivery drivers (mostly Black) and the proliferation of accidents involving the Black population in recent years.