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Inflation forecat speeds up in April with the highest rate since truckers' strike

Gasoline prices - up 3.22% - exert biggest single impact on April IPCA-15 - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency After recording a 0.54% high in March, the inflation preview accelerated to 0.72% in April, driven by price increases in the groups Transportation and Food and beverages. This is the highest...

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Industry keeps upward trend with 0.3% high

Motor vehicles drive high in industrial production - Photo: Brian Snelson / Wikimedia The national industrial production had a positive change of 0.3% in September over August. It is the second month in a row of growth, leveraged mainly by the production of motor vehicles, with a high of 4.3%. The data...

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Inflation preview stays at 0.93%, highest figure in March since 2015

Gasoline price rises for ninth month in a row- Photo: Lícia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency The Extended National Consumer Price Index 15 (IPCA-15) reached 0.93% in March and was 0.45 percentage points (p.p.) above the February rate (0.48%). That is the highest result in March since 2015, when the index...

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Tomorrow, Producer Price Index will start to provide more detailed information

The IBGE will release tomorrow (05/11) a new edition of the Producer Price Index (IPP), this time relative to September. That will be the first release of the survey with detailed information, in a total 23 new series. With this change, the IPP will have groups data at a three-digit level in the National...

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Population increases, but number of persons under 30 falls by 5.4% from 2012 to 2021

Brazilian population increases by 7.6% in 10 years - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency Brazil’s population is older. Between 2012 and 2021, the number of persons under 30 years of age fell 5.4%, whereas all the groups above that age bracket recorded increase in the period. As a consequence, persons...

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Eating out consumes one third of expenditures of households with food

Families began to eat more away from home in rural areas, though habit is bigger in urban sector - Photo: IBGE Archive Eating away from home is becoming an option for more and more persons. Of the total expenditures of the Brazilian households with food, nearly one third (32.8%) is dedicated to meals...

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Retail up again after increase of 0.8% in sales in January

Pharmaceuticals, medical and orthopedic articles and toiletries contributed to the 0.8% increase of retail sales - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency Volume of sales of retail trade in the coiuntry increased by 0.8% in January against the previous month. Despite this increase, more than half of the...

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Rise in supermarket sales limits retail losses to 2.5% in March

Hypermarket and supermarket sales skyrocket 14.6% and prevent a larger drop in retail - Photo: Eduardo Peret/IBGE News Agency According to the Monthly Survey of Trade - PMC released today (13) by the IBGE, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic can be seen in March with the drop of 2.5% in the sales of...

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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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Unemployment drops to 11.2% in quarter ended February

Other services was the only segment to record increase in employment - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency The unemployment rate fell to 11.2% in the quarter ended February, with a change of 0.4 percentage points in comparison with the previous quarter (11.6%). That is the lowest rate for a quarter...

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Health and personal care influence on high in inflation forecast

The inflation forecast of April was of 0.21%. The group within which there is health and personal care had the highest change, 0.69%, and was the one that most had an impact on the result, 0.08 percentage point (pp). The price increases in health insurance (1.06%) and medicines (0.63%) were the main responsible for...

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Civil construction costs increase 0.42% in January

The value of labor force influenced the 0.42% high in the civil construction prices - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency The National Index of Civil Construction (SINAPI), released today by the IBGE, increased 0.42% in January, a result higher than the 0.22% of December 2018. The increase was influenced...

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Inflation preview: fuels push 2018 figure below expected target

The inflation target (IPCA-15), released today by the IBGE, changed by -0.16% in December, versus 0.19% in November. That was the lowest monthly result since July 2017 and the lowest rate for a month of December sincr the start of Plano Real, in. The cumulative rate in the year stayed at 3.86%, below...

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ENCE offers specialization course on environmental analysis and territory management

Registration open until October 15 for ENCE's Specialization Course on Environmental Analysis and Territory Management. Photo: IBGE collection. The IBGE National School of Statistical Sciences (ENCE), located in Rio de Janeiro (RJ), has registration open until October 15 for the Specialization Course...

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With 1% increase in April, sector has the first positive rate in the year

After starting the year with two negative rates and stability, services grew 1% in April compared to March. The change was not enough to reverse the cumulatice negative change in the year, which is -0.6%. In relation to April 2017, the volume of services increased 2.2%, the highest since March 2015....

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Crops bring unprecedented drop in food industry prices in 2018

Driven by the record crop of Brazilian agriculture, the food industry had the first drop in prices in one year (-7.29%) since 2010, when the time series of the Producer Price Index (IPP), released today by IBGE, began. Good harvests of soybeans, sugarcane and rice were some of the causes of such result,...

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Estimate indicates decrease, but 2019 is expected to have 3rd biggest harvest in the time series

The first output estimate for next year points to a decrease of 0.2% agains the 2018 figure. Nevertheless, the expected 226.7 million metric tons (t) of cereals, legumes and oilseeds make up the third biggest estimate in the Systematic Survey of Agricultural Production time series, which started in 1975....

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In the middle of the pandemic, number of divorces drops 13,6% in 2020

With the drop registered in 2020, number of divorces was the lowest one since 2015 - Photo: Freepick Compared with the previous year, the number of divorces granted in Brazil fell 13.6% in 2020. In 2019, the drop had been of 0.5%, interrupting three consecutive years of growth. With the retraction, 331.2...

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Motor vehicles and basic metals ensure positive IPP (0.12%) in May

Between April and May 2017, the IBGE's Producer Price Index (IPP), which measures the price changes of the general industry (mining and quarrying plus manufacturing) without taxes or freight, changed 0.12%, after shrinking 0.11% in the previous month. In the year, prices recorded a slight drop (-0.07%),...

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Pork gains ground in Brazil and abroad

Because of the change in household consumption patterns and the growth in exports, the slaughter of hogs and pigs had its best 2nd quarter since the beginning of the time series. Between April and June 2017, there were 10.62 million head of hogs and pigs, whereas cattle slaughter decreased 3.7% in relation...