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Unemployment maintains record of 14.7% in quarter ending in April

14.8 million persons are looking for a job in Brazil - Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency The unemployment rate was 14.7% in the quarter ended in April, 0.4 percentage points above the quarter ended in January (14.2%). As a result, the number of unemployed persons changed 3.4%, with more 489 thousand persons...

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Industrial output drops in eight of 15 places surveyed in November

Sector of petroleum products leverages drop in Rio de Janeiro industry - Photo: Cesar Duarte - Petrobras Agency The industrial output dropped in eight out of 15 places surveyed by the Monthly Survey of Industry (Regional PIM) between October and November, when the national index changed -0.2%. The major...

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Inflation preview stands at 1.14% in September, the highest figure for the month since 1994

Gasoline increases 2.85% and, together with electricity, exerts the greatest individual impact on the high of IPCA-15 - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency Driven by the increase in the transportation group, the Extended National Consumer Price Index 15 (IPCA-15) was 1.14% in September, the highest...

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Inflation preview stays at 0.72% in July, the highest rate for July since 2004

Electricity was the major individual impact on the July´s IPCA-15 - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency Pressed by the rise of 4.79% in electricity, the Extended National Consumer Price Index 15 (IPCA-15) stayed at 0.72% in July. With this result, inflation preview registered the highest rise for...

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Inflation reaches 0.86% in October, the highest increase for the month since 2002

Tomatoes' prices almost 19% up in Ocotber - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency The price rise in food and airfare put October inflation under pressure, accelerating it to 0.86%, above the rate registered in September (0.64%). This is the highest result for a October since 2002, when the indicator...

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Services sector closes 2019 growing 1%, first rise in five years

Information and communication services, like search engines, leveraged the rise of the sector this year Photo: Pixabay Volume of services increased 1% in 2019, interrupting a sequence of four years without positive results: 2015 (-3.6%), 2016 (-5.0%), 2017 (-2.8%) and 2018 (0%). These are data from the...

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Retail sales drop 0.6% in March, third negative result in 4 months

Drop in the sales of furniture and household appliances pressed the retreat of the retail sector - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency The sales in the retail trade fell 0.6% in March, after changing 0.5% in the previous month. This is the third negative figure in the last four months. The retail,...

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Inflation preview hits 0.54%, highest figure since March 2015

Food products drive inflation preview upwards: pinto beans rose 41.44% - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency The inflation preview accelerated to 0.54% in March, driven by the rise of prices of food products and transportation, by 1.28% and 0.59%, respectively. That is the biggest change for a month...

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Household consumption grows again after nine quarters

With an increase of 1.4% in the comparison between the first and the second quarters of 2017, household consumption resumes growth. In the last quarter, the indicator had shown stability (0.0%), and, in this second quarter, recorded the first growth in nine quarters. “Trade, from the perspective of supply,...

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Expenditure on health in 2019 represented 9.6% of the GDP

Final consumption of goods and services in the country reaached R$ 711.4 billion in 2019 - Photo: Jundiaí Municipal Government Health-related expenditure in the country in 2019 amounted to R$711.4 billion, which is equivalent to 9.6% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which is the sum of all goods...

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IPCA-15 drops 0.59% in May, highest deflation since the beginning of Real Plan

Drop in fule prices pressed the IPCA-15 downward in May - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency Influenced by the drop in fuel prices, the early inflation of May registered -0.59%, the most intense deflation since the beginning of the Real Plan, in July 1994. Having fallen 8.51%, gasoline was the item...

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Enterprises report to be less affected by Covid effects in 2nd half of August

Construction and trade reported the highest incidence of negative effects in the fortnight - Photo: Acácio Pinheiro/Agência Brasília In the second half of August, of the 3.4 million enterprises in operation, 33.5% perceived negative impacts caused by the pandemic on their activities. In the previous...

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Industry advances 2.9% in December over November, closes 2021 with a rise of 3.9%

Car sector rose 12.2% in December - Photo: Fernando Ogura/AEN-PR The industrial output grew 2.9% between November and December. In the previous month, the industry had registered a null change (0.0%), which interrupted five consecutive months of drops. As a result, the sector stands 0.9% below the level...

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With energy prices dropping, inflation is lowest for October since 1998

The reduction in the price of electricity bills pressed the October´s IPCA downward - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency The inflation in Brazil registered the lowest index for October since 1998. The prices rose 0.10% over September, when they deflated by 0.04%. The rate was 0.45% in October last...

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Slaughter of chickens and hogs and pigs hits a record figure and falls again in 2021

With a record of exports and high domestic consumption, slaughter of chickens was the biggest in the time series - Photo: Governo do Estado de São Paulo Slaughter of chickens in Brazil reached 6.18 billion in 2021, which represents an increase of 2.8% - or 169.87 million chickens more - against 2020....

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Industry prices grow 0.45% in September and record the second high in a row

IPP stays positive even with the 10.49% decrease in mining and quarrying prices - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency The increase in diesel, gasoline and fuel oil prices drove the industry inflation to rise 0.45% in September, compared to August. The 1.06% increase in food also contributed to keep...

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SCN - 2021 System of National Accounts: Brazil

The System of National Accounts - SNA presents information on the generation, distribution and use of income in Brazil. There is also data on accumulation of assets, financial assets and on the relations between the domestic economy and the rest of the world. The results now released bring the Supply...

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Inflation reaches 0.4% under pressure from electricity and fuels

Influenced by the increases in electricity, gasoline and diesel, inflation rose from 0.22% to 0.40% in May. In the case of electricity, the rise was 3.53%, after the yellow flag was in force and also after the increases in seven capitals, reaching 18.53% in Belo Horizonte and 16.95% in Salvador. The...

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IBGE updates municipal borders in Legal Amazon Map

The IBGE releases today (June 16) the 2020 Legal Amazon Map, based on the update of the Municipal Mesh. The map brings the state and municipal borders, as well as the positioning of the cities' headquarters in order to broaden the understanding of the urban dynamics and the logistic infrastructure of...

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Company's image is the main reason for environmental innovations

Just 17.2% of innovative enterprises replaced fossil fuel energies with renewable sources - Photo - George Campos/USP The implementation of innovations with environmental benefits has been motivated, mainly, by factors related to the image of the enterprises. Among the ones that introduced eco-innovations...