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Inflation preview in April accelerates to 1.73%, the highest for April since 1995

Gasoline rose 7.51% in April - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency The inflation preview of April accelerated to 1.73%, 0.78 percentage points (p.p.) above the March´s rate (0.95%). This was the highest monthly change of the indicator since February 2003 (2.19%). This was also the highest change for...

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Industry prices rise 2.16% in October

Oil refining recorded biggest increase and highest influence in October - Photo: Tais Peyneau/Petrobras News Agency Inflation in the industry sector is up 2.16% in October from September, according to data from the Producer Price Index (IPP), released today (01) by the IBGE. With the result of industry...

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Industry advances in 10 of the 15 areas surveyed in October

Industry of Bahia accounted for the main positive contribution to national industry in October, driven by petroleum products - Photo: André Motta de Souza/Petrobras With a change of 0.1% in industrial production from September to October, ten of the 15 areas surveyed by the Monthly Survey of Industry...

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Civil construction costs up 0.31% in January

Share of materials registers first negative change since December 2019 - Photo:/IBGE News Agency The National Index of Civil Construction (Sinapi), released today (February 08) by the IBGE, rose 0.31% in January, an increase of 0.23 percentage points in relation to December. In the last 12 months, the...

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IBGE releases results of Continuous PNAD on child labor at ILO

From left to right, Laís Abramo, National Secretary of Care and Family, Adriana Beringuy, IBGE´s Coordinator of Household Sample Surveys, Cimar Azeredo, IBGE´s Director of Surveys, and Vinícius Pinheiro, ILO´s Director - Picture: Jéssica Farias On Wednesday 20, in Brasília, the IBGE released the Continuous...

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Industrial output closes 2023 with growth in ten out of 18 places surveyed

The activities of coke, petroleum products and biofuels leveraged the performance of the Espírito Santo industry in 2023 - Picture: Flickr The production of the national industry rose 1.1% between November and December, with an expansion in ten out of 15 places surveyed. With the result of the last month...

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Larger municipalities implemented most policies to combat Covid in 2020

Larger municipalities implemented most policies to combat Covid 2020 - Photo: Alex Ribeiro/AgPará Food securiy, an indicator directly related to the populations health status, fell from 65.1%, in 2004, according to the IBGE’s National Household Sampe Survey, to 41.3% in 2021, according to the National...

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Inflation rises 0.54% in January, the highest for the month since 2016

Rise in food, like in meat, impacted the month´s index - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency After staying at 0.73% in December, the inflation decelerated to 0.54% in January. This was the highest figure for January since 2016 (1.27%). Over the last 12 months, the indicator accumulates a rise of 10.38%,...

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2022 Census: half of Brazilian indigenous population is under 25 years

Indigenous population shows a younger profile when compared with the total population living in Brazil - Picture: IBGE Archive The results of the 2022 Population Census show that the younger population has a higher weight among the indigenous people compared with the resident population in Brazil. It...

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Food security in Brazilian households increases in 2023

In 2023, 56.7 million (72.4%) private housing units in the country were food secure, but, in other 21.6 million, access to food was difficult - Photo: Daiane Mendonça/SECOM-RO In Q4 2023, having as reference the three months prior to the date of the survey, 72.4% (56.7 million) of the 78.3 million permanent...

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In 2022, the number of births falls for the fourth year and reaches the lowest level since 1977

Number of birth registrations keeps falling and reaches the lowest level since the 70s - Photo: Pxhere Brazil registered 2.54 million births in 2022, a drop of 3.5% compared to 2021, when the number was 2.63 million. This is the fourth consecutive decline in the country's total births, which reached...

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IBGE updates map of the Brazilian Geodetic System Networks

The Map of the Geodetic System Networks is available in PDF - Photo: Freepik (arts over photo) The IBGE has updated today (15) the Map of the Brazilian Geodetic System Networks Redes (SGB) 2021, at the 1:5,000,000 scale – in which 1 cm is equivalent to 50 kilometers. The product is directed to students...

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Industrial output retreats in five out of 15 places surveyed in February over January

Reduction in the production of food influenced the third consecutive drop in the São Paulo industry - Picture: José Fernando Ogura/AEN/PR With the change of -0.2% in the national industrial output in February over January, five out of 15 places surveyed by the Regional Monthly Survey of Industry (PIM)...

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IPCA-15 accelerates to 0.53% in November

Gasoline prices rose 1.6% in November, with the biggest impact on the month's index - Photo: Helena Pontes/Agência IBGE Notícias The preview of November inflation accelerated to 0.53%, after the index of 0.16% recorded in October. The Extended National Consumer Price Index 15 (IPCA-15), released today...

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Brazil has 90 million housing units, 34% more than in 2010

In the capital of São Paulo, the number of housing units reached 4.9 million, 27% more against the 2010 Census - Photo: Ralph Izumi/IBGE In 2022, there were 90.7 million housing units in the country, an increase of 34% agains the 2010 Census, when there were 67.5 million. Among the housing units enumerated...

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Construction prices grow 1.48% in July, third highest rate in the year

Beginning of the second semester shows the third highest index in the year - Photo: Simone Mello/IBGE Archive Released today (9) by the IBGE, the National Index of Civil Construction (Sinapi) rose 1.48% in July, 0.17 percentage points (p.p.) below the June´s rate, which was 1.65%. As a result, the cumulative...

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Retail sales drop 1.4% in June, second consecutive month on negative side

One of the greatest influences on the June´s result was the drop of 0.5% in the sector of supermarkets - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency Sales in the retail trade in Brazil retreated 1.4% between May and June. This is the second consecutive negative change in the sector, which accumulates a retraction...

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Inflation hits 1.01%, highest figure in February since 2015

IPCA of February encompasses price adjustments usually established in the beginning of the school year - Photo: Lucas Fermin/SEED/AEN-PR Inflation rose 1.01% in February 2022, having recorded the biggest change for a month of February since 2015 (1.22%). The index was of 0.47 percentage points above...

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In Ceará, IBGE releases Census results concerning color or race with the support of Palmas Bank

Ceará's Color or Race was revealed at a dissemination event in the headquarters of Palmas Bank Last Friday, December 22nd, another important piece of data from the 2022 Population Census was revealed: the color or race of Brazilians. As on previous occasions, the IBGE State Superintendence in Ceará (SES/CE)...

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Retail sales up by 0.6% in September, with rise of the supermarket sector

The sector of hypermarkets and supermarkets grew by 1.6% and had an impact on the result of retail trade in September - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency Retail sales decreased by 0.6% from August to September. In the previous month, there was a change of -0.1%. The sector had a cumulative increase...