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São Francisco River enables strategic connection between Major Regions in Brazil

From its spring, at the highest spot of the National Park of Canastra, in Minas Gerais, up to the Atlantic Ocean, on the border between Alagoas and Sergipe, São Francisco River traverses 2,700 kilometers and brings water and life to the semi-arid region. Along that path it also crosses the states of...

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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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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...

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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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Pandemic was responsible for closure of 4 out of every 10 enterprises

Pandemic has a negative effect on business according to 70% of the active enterprises - Photo: Tânia Rêgo/Agência Brasil Among the 1.3 million enterprises that had stopped their activities temporarily or permanently in the first half of June, 39.4% reported as a main reason the restrictions imposed by...

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June's inflation stays at 0.01%, the lowest rate of the year

Decrease in fruit prices contributes to deflation of 0.25% in food in June - Photo: Luiz Agner/IBGE The Extended National Consumer Price Index (IPCA), which measures the official inflation in the country, was 0.01% in June, the lowest rate for 2019. The index accumulated a high of 2.23% in the year and...

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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 fourth increase in a row, inflation in industry rises 1.43% in May

Mining and quarrying prices rose 6.50% in May, pushed by the oil sector - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/Agência IBGE Notícias Prices in industry rose 1.43% in May, against April, due to hikes in the sectors of food products, oil products and mining and quarrying. This is the fourth consecutive month of rise...

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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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Civil construction closes the year with lowest increase in costs since 2013

The National Index of Civil Construction (Sinapi), released today by the IBGE, recorded, in 2017, ts lowest cumulative annual result (3.82%) since 2013, when it had recorded 0.52% due to the impact of the exemption of payroll taxes initiated that year. The monthly change in December was 0.18%, also below...

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Industrial output remains on slight upward trend in November

From October to November, industry in Brazil recorded a positive change of 0.2%, having kept the same pace of increase as in September and October. That is what shows the Monthly Survey of Industry (PIM/PF-Brasil), released today, by the IBGE. Among the major economic categories, two recorded an increase...

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Inflation stands at 0.25% in February, the lowest for the month since 2000

Prices of the group education rose 3.70% and had the highest impact on February's inflation - Photo: Agência Brasília The country's inflation was 0.25% in February, the lowest result for the month since 2000, when the index was 0.13%. The increase was driven by price rise at the beginning of the school...

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Civil construction costs increases 0.19% in October

Workforce costs had the third lowest rate of the year, 0.11% - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency The National Index of Construction (Sinapi), released today by the IBGE, grew 0.19% in October, after standing at 0.37% in September. The share of the labor force presented the third lowest rate of the...

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Fuels boost inflation in September

With a high of 1.91% in September, against the previous month, fuels were the items that most influenced the 0.16% change of the Extended National Consumer Price Index (IPCA), released today by the IBGE. The liter of gasoline stood, on average, 2.22% more expensive than in August. The high was influenced...

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Industrial output drops in 7 out of the 15 areas surveyed in August

Industry shrank in seven areas - Photo: Geraldo Bubniak/AEN-PR Industrial output dropped in seven of the 15 areas surveyed from July to August, according to data from the Monthly Survey of Industry (PIM Regional), released today (08) by the IBGE. Pernambuco (-12%) recorded the biggest decrease and that...

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Unemployment stands steady at 14.4% in quarter ended in February

Unemployed population adds up to 14.4 million in the quarter ended in February - Photo: Marinho Ramos/Semcom - Manaus The unemployed population in Brazil was estimated at 14.4 million in the quarter ended in February, the largest amount since 2012 - starting point of the time series of the Continuous...

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Annual average unemployment rate decreases in most states in 2021

Annual average unemployment rate in 2021 is second highest since the beginning of the series - Photo: Helena Pontes/Agência IBGE Notícias The average annual unemployment rate in Brazil fell from 13.8% in 2020to 13.2% in 2021 e esse movimento de queda foi acompanhado pela maior parte das regiões. Also,...

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Number of municipalities with fires increases 42.9% in four years

Number of municipalities that reported fires increased more than 40% - Photo: Vinícius Mendonça-Ibama About 66% of the Brazilian municipalities reported the occurrence of at least one environmental impact between the years 2018 and 2020. Of these, half reported cases of fire. This is shown by the result...

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Services sector remains stable in December, closes year with drop of 7.8%

The drop in the revenue of restaurants, hotels and catering pressed the sector of services rendered to families - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency The services sector remained stable (-0.2%) in December against November, interrupting six consecutive months of rises. Despite the cumulative gain of...

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Rise of 0.55% is highest in year

Released today by the IBGE, the National Index of Civil Construction - Sinapi rose 0.55% in May compared with April, the highest monthly rate in 2018. In the cumulative index in the year, the rise was of 1.53%, whereas the result for the last 12 months stayed at 3.87%. Inflation for this sector was strongly...