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Inflation speeds up to 1.16% in September, highest for the month since 1994

With water scarcity flag, electricity rose 6.47% in September and accumulated an increase of 28.82% in 12 months. Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency Inflation rose 1.16% in September, the highest for the month since 1994, when the index was 1.53%. As a result, the indicator accumulates highs of...

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Internet was available in 90.0% of Brazilian housing units in 2021

TV surpassed PCs as second most used device for Internet access - Photo: Helena Pontes on mockup Freepik For the first time since 2016, there was signficant change in the ranking of most often used devices to access the Internet in Brazilian housing units. In 2021, the cell phone remained in the leadership,...

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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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North Region leads high in civil construction costs in September

The North Region leads the change of civil construction per square meter registered by the National Index of Civil Construction (SINAPI) in September, released today by the IBGE. The area presented a change of 0.66%, more than twice as much as the national index, of 0.27% in the same period. In the year, the...

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Services sector figures still negative in September

The change recorded by the services sector (-0.3%) in September, in the seasonally-adjusted series, was below July (-0.8%) and August (-1.0%) figures, as a sign of stability against the previous month. “The decrease observed in September, 0.3% was mainly a consequence of the 1.8% decrease in Information...

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Study brings data from sea level monitoring by IBGE stations

The tide gauge stations are strategically positioned along the Brazilian coast - Photo: Salomão Soares/IBGE The IBGE makes available today (16) a publication with the results of the monitoring of the variation of the mean sea level in the stations of the Geodetic Permanent Tide Gauge Network (RMPG),...

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Roraima was the only state to record increase of GDP in 2016

Data from the Regional Accounts, relreased today by the IBGE, sowed that the decrease of GDP in 2016, against the previous year, was observed in 25 states. The only one recording a postive change was Roraima, with 0.2% of increase, whereas the Federal District remained stable, with 0.0%. According to...

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Retail sales level off in November after series of increases

Hipermarkets and supermarkets record decrease in volume of sales in November - Photo: Helena Pontes/Agência IBGE Notícias After six consecutive months of increase with cumulative gains of 32.2%,volume of sales remained stable from October and November 202, with a change of -0.1%. Against the same period...

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In 2021, cattle herd hits record figure and reaches 224.6 million head

Cattle herd hit a record in 2021, and the municipality of São Félix do Xingu (PA) led the ranking - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency Cattle herd hits a record in 2021 and reaches 224.6 million head Cattle herd increased for the third consecutive year and reached the record figure in the time...

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Sector's costs changed 0.24% in November

The National Index of Civil Construction (Sinapi), released today by the IBGE, recorded a change of 0.24% in November, a result below the 0.43% registered in Ocotber. In the cumulative index of the year, o the result was 4.18%. With less than a month to go before the end of the year, construction prices...

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Retail sales increase by 0.6% in November with a reduced impact on Black Friday

Volume of sales of furniture and household appliances fell 2.3% in November - Photo: Rovena Rosa/Brazil Agency. Volume of sales of retail trade in the country increased by 0.6% in November against the previous month (0.2%). Despite this increase, more than half of the activities recorded a negative result...

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GDP grows 3.2% in Q4 but closes the year falling 4.1%, the greatest drop in 25 years

Services rendered to families, as restaurants, were the most affected by the pandemic - Photo: Tomaz Silva/Agência Brasil The country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) advanced 3.2% in the fourth quarter of 2020, but closed the year with a 4.1% decrease, totaling R$ 7.4 trillion. It is the biggest annual...

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GDP grows 1.2% in first quarter, returns to pre-pandemic level

GDP registered the third positive figure in the pandemic - Photo: Marcelo Seabra/Agência Pará The Gross Domestic Product - GDP grew 1.2% in the first quarter this year compared with the last quarter last year. This is the third positive figure, after retreating in the first (-2.2%) and second (-9.2%)...

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Fuels contribute to deflation of 0.31% in April, lowest index in 22 years

Gasoline deflation was registered in all the 16 areas surveyed in April - Tony Winston/Brasilia Local Branch With a decrease of 9.59% in fuels prices, deflation in the country was 0.31% in April, after recording 0.07% in March. The result is the lowest monthly change since August 1998, when it reached...

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North and Northeast push unemployment to record figure in Brazil in Q1

Unemployment rate of the black population (18.6%) is higher than among whites (11.9%) - Photo: Jader Paes/Pará State Branch The record unemployment rate of 14.7% in the country resulted mainly from the contributions of the North Region, with a change from 12.4%, in the last quarter of 2020, to 14.8%,...

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IBGE holds national mobilization to enumerate Indigenous communities and peoples

IBGE teams carry out the Census interview approach in the Indigenous village of Tekoa Itakupe, in São Paulo (SP) - Photo: IBGE Collection Indigenous peoples have organization, habits and rituals of their own. As their lands have specific conditions of access and circulation, it is fundamental to count...

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Miriam Leitão reflects upon the country's future at inaugural class in School of Statistics

The journalist presented the result of nearly three years of interviews, trips and data analyses - Photo: Álvaro Vasconcellos/IBGE Journalist Miriam Leitão gave a lecture, yesterday (11), at the inaugural class of the Doctoral and Master's Program of Population, Territory and Public Statistics, at the National...

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Unemployment hits 14 million people in fourth week of September

With the relaxation of the isolation, more people press the labor market looking for jobs - Photo: Bruno Cecim/ Agência Pará According to PNAD COVID19, released today (16) by the IBGE, the number of unemployed persons hit 14 million in the fourth week of September, remaining statistically stable against...

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Volume of services increases by 0.9% in May and records third increase in four months

Information technology services increased by 2.4% in May and hit the highest level sine January 2011 - Photo: Pixabay Volume of services in the country increased 0.9% from April to May. That is the third positive result of the sector in the last four months, a period when there was an increase of 3.3%....

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In five states: international observers watch data collection and learn about 2022 Census

IBGE brought international observers to watch the 2022 Census data collection - Photo: Jessica Cândido/IBGE News Agency As the 2022 Census collection went on, in the afternoon of September 19, in the Peró neighborhood (Cabo Frio - RJ - one of the main tourist destinations in the state) with enumerators...