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IBGE Expedition to Jalapão takes information and citzenship to municipalities in Tocantins

Concentration for the Expedition at the Praça dos Girassóis (Sunflower Square) - Photo - IBGE Collection Inspired by the historical expeditions carried out by the Institute, around 70 people participated in the IBGE Jalapão Tocantins Expedition to disseminate the geographic coordinates of the country's...

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Driven by exports and domestic market, cattle slaughter hits record in Q2

Compared to the same period lastbul year, cattle slaughter grew 17.5% in the second quarter of 2024, totaling 9.96 million head - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/Agência IBGE Notícias The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) released today (5) the complete results of the Livestock Production...

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With a change of 0.06% in February, industry prices are positive again

Drop of 1.42% in the food sector affected the result of IPP in February (0.06%) - Photo: Geraldo Bubniak/AEN-PRR After three consecutive months of negative figures, national industry prices changed by 0.06% from January to February. With this result, the producer Price Index (IPP) has a cumulative drop...

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2022 Census: In 12 years, proportion of female householders advances and equals that of male ones

In 2022, 49.1% of the households in Brazil had female householders - Photo: Brasília Branch In 2022, among the 72.5 million households in Brazil, 49.1% had female householders. The proportion represents an important change from the 2010 Census, when the percentage of male householders (61.3%) was significantly...

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Retail sales increased 0.9% in April, fourth positive month

Sales in the sector of office, IT and communication equipment and supplies grew 14.2% in April - Photo: Jefferson Rudy/Agência Senado Between March and April, retail sales in the country grew 0.9%, reaching the highest level in the series. This was the fourth positive result in a row for the sector,...

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Driven by Food and Beverages, IPCA-15 reaches 0.36% in March

IPCA-15 decelerated in March, affected by increases in Food and Beverages - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency The inflation preview stood at 0.36% in March, being 0.42 percentage points (p.p) below that of February, when it changed by 0.78%. The result was mostly influenced by Food and Beverages,...

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Inflation decelerates and stands at 0.16%

Food prices rose in March, buy to a lower extent than in February - Photo Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency Inflation in Brazil decelerated in March, and rose by 0.16%, being 0.67 percentage points (p.p.) lower than in February (0.83%). The cumulative inflation in the year is at 1.42%. In the last twelve...

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Unemployment increases in eight Federation Units and drops in only one in Q1 2024

Eight states recorded increases in unemployment rate in Q1 2024 - Photo: IBGE Archive Unemployment rate in Brazil rose to 7.9% in Q1 2024, with an increase of 0.5 percentage points (p.p.) from Q4 2023. Increase was recorded in eight Federation Units (FU). These data come from the Continuous National...

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Value of livestock and agricultural production reached R$ 122.4 billion in 2023

Cattle inventory reached a record figure in the time series: 238.6 million head - Photo: Licia Rubinstein Value of production found by PPM 2023 hit R$ 122.4 billion, an increase of 5.4% from the previous year. Livestock productsreached R$ 112.3 billion, an increase of 4.5% from 2022, and aquaculture...

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Industry prices grow 0.74% in April, third positive result in a row

The 0.79% increase in the petroleum refining and biofuels sector was influenced by the increase in biodiesel - Photo: Camila Domingues/Palácio Piratini National industry prices grew 0.74% in April compared to the previous month. This was the third positive result in a row in this indicator. As a result,...

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Industrial production drops 1.6% in January after two months of growth

Mining and quarrying industries and food products influence industry decline in January 2024 - Photo: Agência Vale Industrial production fell 1.6% from December 2023 to January 2024, after accumulating expansion of 2.9% in the period from August to December 2023. With these results, the sector is still...

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Unemployment rate drops to 7.8% in 2023, lowest figure since 2014

Number of employed persons with a formal contract hits a record in 2023 - Photo: Dênio Simões/Brasília Branch The unemployment rate reached 7.4% in the quarter ended December 2023, a drop of 0.3 percentage points (p.p) against the quarter July-September. As a result, the average moving rate of the index...

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Volume of services increases once more and hits a record in June

Fall of airfare prices influenced the increase in volume of passengers transported in June - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency Volume of services rendered in the country, after a negative change of 0.4% in May, increased once more in June. The sector increased by 1.7%, the biggest increase since...

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Industrial output retreats in five out of 15 places surveyed in April

Result of mining sector influenced industry in Pará, which registered the biggest drop in April - Picture: Roberto Rocha/Agência Vale Five out of 15 places investigated by the Regional Monthly Survey of Industry (PIM) dropped between March and April, when the national industrial output fell 0.5%. The...

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2022 Census: Brazil has 8,441 quilombola localities, 24% of them in Maranhão

Unprecedented Census release shows that there were 8,441 quilombola localities in Brazil in 2022 - Photo: IBGE Archive In 2022, there were 8,441 quilombola localities in the Brazilian territory, associated to 7,666 quilombola communities reported by informants of the population Census. The Northeast...

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Inflation hits 0.83% in February, driven by the rise in Education

Rise of prices in Education add to inflation in the country with start of school year - Photo: IBGE Archive Inflation in the country accelerated in February and increased by 0.83%, after closing January at 0.42%. Prices in Education recorded the main increase (4.98%) and the biggest impact (0.29 p.p.)...

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IBGE announces actions aimed at Rio Grande do Sul’s recovery

On Monday, the 20th, the IBGE showed how the task force organized by the Institute will work to help rebuild the areas affected by floods in Rio Grande do Sul (RS). The main objective is to train municipal managers in the use of the various IBGE digital tools, so that they can act in the diagnosis, planning...

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Construction prices slow down and change 0.08% in November

Steel was the material with the biggest cost fluctuation in 2023 - Photo: Carlos Tavares/Agência Pará The National Index of Civil Construction (Sinapi), released today (12) by the IBGE, showed a change of 0.08% in November, a drop of 0.06 percentage points (pp) in relation to October (0.14%). Thus, in...

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Slaughter of cattle and hogs and pigs grows in Q4 2023

9.05 million cattle head slaughtered in the fourth quarter represented an increase of 19.9% against the same period in 2022 - Picture: Licia Rubinstein /IBGE News Agency According to the preliminary results of the Statistics of the Livestock Production, released today (9) by the IBGE, cattle slaughter...

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Construction prices change 0.26% in December, year closes with rise of 2.55%

Influenced by adjustments in professional categories, Piauí has the highest change - Picture: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency Released today (11) by the IBGE, the National Index of Civil Construction (Sinapi) changed 0.26% in December, a rise of 0.18 percentage points (pp) in relation to November (0.08%)....