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Slums resist, challenge urbanization

Slums are a complex subject that triggers a lot of discussions about urbanization, infrastructure and identity policies. Between 1991 and 2010, the population living in these areas – called subnormal agglomerates by the IBGE – increased more than 60%, changing from slightly less than seven million to...

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Book discusses reconciliation between IBGE and Ministry of Health data

The IBGE launches today the "Systems of Vital Statistics in Brazil: advances, perspectives and challenges" publication, a discussion on methods of reconciling the Civil Registry Statistics with the administrative records of the Ministry of Health. The publication can be purchased at the IBGE´s virtual...

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Industrial production shrinks 2.4% in March - second consecutive month of decrease

Fall in the manufacture of motor vehicles drove Brazilian industrial production down - Photo: Roberto Dziura Jr/Secom Industrial production fell 2.4% in March compared to the previous month and intensified the loss of 1.0% that had been registered in February, when there was an interruption of nine months...

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New geospatial data show area hit by dam rupture

The IBGE released today (14) new geospatial information on the region hit by the rupture of one of the dams of Feijão Mine, in Brumadinho (MG). Based on up-to-date satellite images, the delimitation of the affected area and the boundaries and localities of the 17 municipalities around Paraopeba River...

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States' GDP: 20 years of contribution to regional development

Sector of liquids and gases in the Suape Port Industrial Complex, in Pernambuco - Photo: Rafael Medeiros/Suape Twenty years ago, the IBGE disclosed the first States' GDP, with information from 1985 to1997. Since then, the Institute has coordinated the System of Regional Accounts, which presents every...

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Industry advances 2.9% in December over November, closes 2021 with a rise of 3.9%

Car sector rose 12.2% in December - Photo: Fernando Ogura/AEN-PR The industrial output grew 2.9% between November and December. In the previous month, the industry had registered a null change (0.0%), which interrupted five consecutive months of drops. As a result, the sector stands 0.9% below the level...

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[Retratos] Frontiers of rural Amazon

The reality of the agricultural establishments located in the rural Amazon will be also portrayed in the Census of Agriculture 2017, carried out by the IBGE. Data collection began in October this year and should last up to February 2018. Yet, where does the Amazon begin and end? One way to look at this...

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Number of black men killed by Covid exceeded that of white ones in 2020

Children aged up to 14 face highest extreme and extreme poverty rates - Photo: Tânia Rego/Brazil Agency. Last year, Covid-19 was the reported cause of death of 209.7 thousand deaths in the country, being 200.6 thousand deaths with informed color or race. Of that total, 101,9 thousand were white and 98.7...

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IBGE participates in 49th session of United Nations Statistical Commission

The President of the IBGE, Roberto Olinto Ramos, represented the Institute as a speaker in the conferences related to the tenth anniversary of the System of National Accounts 2008, at the 49th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission - UNSC. Held in New York City between March 6 and 9, the...

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Event celebrates 80 years of IBGE Library

Comprising 80 thousand documents, the IBGE Library pioneered automation in Brazil - IBGE Archive The VIII IBGE Memory Panel: IBGE Libraries will be held next Friday (August 30), at 2pm, to celebrate 80 years of the IBGE Library. The event will take place at the auditorium of the Center for Information...

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Industrial prices begin 2021 rising 3.36% in January

Mining sector registered the highest rise and influence on the industrial prices in January - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency Industrial prices rose 3.36% in January 2021 over December 2020. The rate is quite higher than that recorded between November and December (0.39%), and it represents...

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IBGE gathers hotsite with data of surveys and partnerships to fight against Covid-19

New hotsite to fight against Covid-19 gathers data for decision taking of health offices - Photo: IBGE The IBGE launched a hotsite that gathers the actions that it has been taking to fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, a disease caused by the new coronavirus. The page makes available results of surveys,...

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Goat and sheep farming stands out in Ceará

The sertão (*) of Ceará produces much more than one can find at first. The state has gained prominence in livestock, mainly in goat and sheep farming. According to data from the IBGE's Municipal Livestock Production (PPM), Ceará had, in 2016, the fourth biggest herd of goats in the country: 1.13 million...

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Life expectancy of Brazilians increased to 75.8 years

From 2015 to 2016, life expectancy at birth in Brazil increased from 75.5 to 75.8 years, with an increase of three months and eleven days. That indicator shows the average time a person born in a given year is expected to live. Among the Brazilian states, Santa Catarina records the highest life expectancy...

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Industrial prices register highest drop since January 2014

Released today by the IBGE, the Producer Price Index - IPP fell 1.54% in November over October, the highest drop registered since the beginning of the time series in January 2014. Petroleum and alcohol products and other chemicals were the major sectors that pressed the index downward. The IPP stayed...

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Inflation in industry decelerates to 1.39% in November after record increase

Food industry prices records cumulative increase of 32.01% in 2020 - Geraldo Bubniak/AEN-PR Industry prices rose 1.39% in November 2020 against the previous month. Despite the increase, there was deceleration from the October result, when the index had recorded its biggest increase in the time series...

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2022 Census: IBGE releases results about Indigenous population and localities in Rio de Janeiro

On December 19, at 10 am, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) will release the results of the 2022 Population Census: Indigenous Population Main characteristics of persons and of urban and rural housing units: Population Results. Another release will be of 2022 Population Census:...

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Industrial production falls 0.6% in October, fifth drop in a row

The biggest influences on the result of the industry came from the falls in iron ore and petroleum - Photo: Agência Petrobras Industrial production presented decrease of 0.6% from September to October. It is the fifth consecutive negative result, accumulating in the period a loss of 3.7%. These are the...

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Insecurity increases, limits rights and threatens freedom in the country

Security, one of the rights guaranteed in the 1988 Federal Constitution, is a fundamental necessity of life in society and the feeling that we lack it can definitely affect everyone's lives, from long-term plans to weekend leisure plans. When the right to life is threatened, leisure - also protected...

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Industrial output falls 0.7% in August, third drop in a row

Retraction in Brazilian industrial output was spread along 15 out of 26 sectors surveyed - Photo: Andre Motta de Souza/Petrobras Having retreated 0.7% between July and August, the industrial output dropped for the third month in a row. The cumulative loss was 2.3% in this period. With the August´s result,...