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Rate of GDP growth in 2005 was 2.3%

The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) accumulated in the four quarters of 2005 grew by 2.3% in comparison with the previous year, according to IBGE. The rate resulted from the growth of Value Added at basic prices (2.1% ) and of Taxes on Products (3.9%). GDP per capita [1] grew by 0.8% in 2005. The figures...

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Industrial output contracts 1.6% in June

In June of 2011, the industrial output contracted 1.6% against the previous month in the seasonally adjusted series, reverting the expansion of 1.1% observed in May. In relation to the same month a year ago, the industry increased by 0.9%, a much lower rate than the one registered in May (2.7%). At the...

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Inflation accelerates to 0.46% in May, leveraged by rise in food

Having increased 20.61%, potatoes was the item with the biggest individual impact on the Brazilian inflation in May - Picture: IBGE Archive The Brazilian inflation was 0.46% in May, accelerating in relation to the previous month (0.38%). The result was pressed by the prices of food and beverages, which...

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Industrial prices fall 0.18% in December, close 2023 with a drop of 4.98%

The activity of petroleum refining and biofuels exerted the biggest influence (-1.85 pp) on the cumulative result of the year - Picture: André Valentin/Agência Petrobras The prices of the industrial sector registered a negative change of 0.18% in December 2023 over the previous month, the second negative...

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Industrial output increases in 8 of 14 places surveyed in January

In the seasonally-adjusted series, the expansion registered in the national industrial output between December 2015 and January 2016 was followed by eight out of the 14 places surveyed, highlighted by the most intense advances recorded in Santa Catarina (3.7%) and Pará (3.3%). Considering these figures,...

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Cattle herd decreases 3.0% in the country and 5.0%

The total cattle herd in Brazil decreased 3.0% between 2006 and 2007, changing from 205,886,244 to 199,752,014 cattle head. The decrease was even higher (-5.0%) in the municipalities which form the Legal Amazon (all those located in the North Region and some in Maranhão and Mato Grosso), although there...

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Industrial output increases 1.9% in June

In June 2013, the industrial output increased 1.9% in relation to the immediately previous month, in the seasonally adjusted series, after registering an expansion of 1.8% in April and a decline of 1.8% in May. Compared with the same month of the previous year in the series not seasonally adjusted, the...

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Cattle slaughter grows 9.0% in relation to the same period of 2016 and 7.6% in relation to Q2

In the third quarter of 2017, cattle slaughter increased by 7.6% in the quarter (7.98 million head) and 9% in comparison with the same period of 2016. Slaughter of pigs and hogs also registered an increase in the quarter reaching 11.032 million head slaughtered, the best result for this period of the...

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CEMPRE 2014: number of enterprises and other organizations drops 5.4%

In 2014, the IBGE´s Central Register of Enterprises – CEMPRE gathered 5.1 million enterprises and other formal organizations in operation, which represented a drop of 5.4% (less 288.9 thousand enterprises) in relation to 2013. This was the first drop in the number of enterprises and other organizations...

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Quarterly Continuous PNAD: unemployment increases in 14 of the 27 Federation Units in Q1 2019

In Brazil, the unemployment rate of Q1 2019 was 12.7%, 1.1 percentage points above that of the previous quarter (11.6%) and 0.4 percentage points below Q1 2018 (13.1%). The biggest rates were observed in Amapá (20.2%), Bahia (18.3%) and Acre (18.0%), and the lowest, in Santa Catarina (7.2%), Rio Grande...

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Summary of Social Indicators: figures indicate increase of poverty between 2016 and 2017

The Summary of Social Indicators (SIS) analyzed the issue of poverty making use of different measurements that show its increase between 2016 and 2017. According to the World Bank Poverty Line (income of up to US$ 5.5 per day, or R$ 406 per month), poor people in Brazil made up 25.7% of the population...

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Industrial output declines in 9 out of the 14 places surveyed in July

The regional indexes of industrial output registered negative rates in nine out of the 14 places surveyed by IBGE between June and July 2013. This drop followed the reduction in the pace of the national industry in the seasonally adjusted series. São Paulo (-4.1%), the most diversified industrial park,...

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Continuous PNAD 2018: 10% of population concentrate 43.1% of Brazilian wage bill

The Gini Index of the per capita household real monthly average earnings, which varies from zero (equality) to one (maximum inequality), was estimated at 0.545 in 2018. Between 2012 and 2015, the Gini Index tended to decrease (from 0.540 to 0.524), which was reversed from 2016 onwards, when the index...

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Industrial output falls 0.5% in March

March 2014 / February 2014 -0.5% March 2014 / March 2013 -0.9% Cumulative in 2014 0.4% Cumulative in 12 months 2.1% Quarterly Moving Average 0.6% In the seasonally adjusted series, the national industrial output dropped 0.5% in March 2014 over the immediately previous month, after remaining stable in...

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IPCA-15 stays at 0.16% in August

The Extended National Consumer Price Index (IPCA-15) changed 0.16% in August, being above July's IPCA-15, whose rate was 0.07%. As a consequence, the cumulative index of the year was 3.69%, above the 3.32% rate registered in the same period of 2012. Taking into consideration the last 12 months, the index...

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IPCA-15 in December was 0.70% and IPCA-E closes the year at 4.36%

The Extended Consumer Price Index -15 (IPCA-15) changed by 0.70% in December; this rate was above the November result (0.23%). As a consequence, IPCA-E (Special Extended Consumer Price Index) closed the year at 4.36%, a figure above the rate of 2.96% registered in 2006. The group Food products and beverages...

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Industrial output grows 0.7% in August

August 2014 / July 2014 0.7% August 2014 / August 2013 -5.4% Cumulative over 2014 -3.1% Cumulative over 12 months -1.8% Quarterly Moving Average -0.1% In August 2014, the national industrial output posted increase of 0.7% against the previous month, in the seasonally adjusted series, after also growing...

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Cattle slaughter increases 4.4% over Q1 2017

Cattle slaughter increased 4.4%, hogs and pigs slaughter rose 2.3% and chicken slaughter dropped 1.2% in the first quarter of 2018 over the first quarter of 2017. In the comparison between the first quarter of 2018 and the fourth quarter of 2017, cattle slaughter fell 4.2%, hogs and pigs slaughter dropped...

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Corn and soybeans lead Brazil into record grain production in 2007

In 2007, the Brazilian production of cereal, legumes and oilseeds, referred to as grains, has reached a new record: a total harvest of 133.3 million tons, 13.7% more than in 2006. In 2007, the Brazilian production of cereal, legumes and oilseeds, referred to as grains, has reached a new record: a total...

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Industrial output up 1.8% in April

In April 2013, the seasonally-adjusted industrial output recorded change of 1.8% over the March 2013 index. That was the second consecutive positive result in this type of comparison, resulting in cumulative increase 0f 2.7% in the period. In the series without adjustment, against the same month a year...