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With services affected by pandemic, GDP of 2020 falls 3.3%

Food services fall 27% and influence GDP retraction in 2020 - Picture: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency In 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the world economy, the Brazilian Gross Domestic Product (GDP) dropped 3.3% after rising 1.2% in 2019. The gross value added of services fell 3.7%, leveraged...

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Industrial production drops 0.4% in June after four months of high

The segment of pharmochemicals and pharmaceuticals retreated 14.1% in June - Photo: Rodrigo Nunes/MS - Agência Senado After four consecutive months of positive results, industrial production dropped 0.4% from May to June. The last fall of the industry had been registered in January of this year (-1.9%)....

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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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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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New PNAD TIC will investigate streaming, 5G, the Internet of things, applications and work from home

Survey innovations were presented by Cimar Azeredo Pereira, IBGE's Director of Surveys, after the release of PNAD TIC 2021, on September 16, in Brasília - Photo: SDI-DF/IBGE News Agency Last Friday (16), the IBGE announced, im Brasília, changes in the thematic module on Information and Communication...

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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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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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Households spend 36% more with health per person than government

The per capita expenditure of households and non-profit institutions with health goods and services was of R$1,538.79 in 2015, 36% higher than the per capita expenditure of government, which was of R$1,131.94. This information is from the Health Satellite Account 2010-2015, released today by the IBGE....

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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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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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Social protetction grows, but faces challenges of future funding

Thirty years after the adoption of the 1988 Federal Constitution, the advances in social protection in Brazil are undeniable, but social security still faces major challenges, especially in the financing of social security when it comes to changes in the age structure of the population. This is what...

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Earnings from labor of richest 1% is 34 times higher than the half poorest

Group of richest 1% increased labor income by 8.4% over 2017 - Photo: Camille Perissé/IBGE News Agency The monthly average earnings of the richest 1% population was nearly 34 times higher than the half poorest in 2018. This means that the parcel with the highest income gained R$27,744 per month, on average,...

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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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Industry of Ceará shows recovery based on oil, apparel and footwear

After reaching the lowest level of output in this time series (-28.6%), in November 2016, the industry of Ceará state recovered in the moonths of April (1.3%) and May (5.9%), with a cumulative increase of 7.3% in these two months. In spite of that, industry in the state is still 20.4% below the output...

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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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Country lost 7.5% of its forests between 2000 and 2016

The new version of the Monitoring of Land Use and Land Cover of Brazil, put out today by the IBGE, shows that the country lost 7.5% of its forest vegetation in 17 years. In 2000, this area, equivalent to 4,017,505 km2, decreased to 3,719,801 km2 in 2016. The study also shows that, from 2014 to 2016,...

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Population reaches 205.5 million, with fewer whites and more blacks and browns

The white population decreased by 1.8% between 2012 and 2016, amounting to 90.9 million, whereas the browns increased 6.6% and blacks, 14.9%, reaching a total 95.9 million and 16.8 million, respectively. The Brazilian population amounted to 205.5 million, with an increase of 3.4% against the 2012 figure....

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Ecovillages point out new possibilities of living together

Coliving projects, concern with the environment, organic farming and civil construction with alternative materials. “Ecovillage” is the noun by which, since the 1990's, has been coined a lifestyle that embrace all these trends together or some of them combined. In Brazil, there are more and more communities that...

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Divide to know: the regional divisions of Brazil

Citing the names of the five Brazilian Major Regions and pointing them on a map may be an easy task for most people, but does someone know to explain what defines each one of them? Who knows whether Brazil was always divided like this? The maps published in this story of the Retratos Magazine no. 6 show...

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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,...