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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...

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Unemployment decreases in 5 states and increases in Roraima, only; Northeast Region has highest rate

The decrease of the national unemployment rate to 11.9% in the quarter ended September was concentrated in only five Federation Units (Rio de Janeiro, Ceará, Minas Gerais, Tocantins and Mato Grosso), whereas Roraima was rhe only state to record a hike in the period, of 13.5%. Among the Major Regions,...

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Food products keep holding inflation back

Food products, responsible for 25% of household expenditure, recorded the main negative resullt in the Extended National Consumer Price Index 15 (IPCA-15) of July, with a decrease of 0.14 percentage points. Most of those products got cheaper from June to July: potato (-19.07%), tomato (-8.48%) and fruits...

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Household surveys help to tell stories of Brazilian families

Each element of Daniele Miranda´s house is part of the history of the family - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency Daniele Miranda, her husband Paulo José da Silva and four children live for nine years in a house in the district of Realengo, west of Rio de Janeiro. Each element of the house is part...

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Pharmaceuticals boost industry’s result in October

With a positive change of 0.2% in October compared to September, the industrial sector was influenced mainly by the pharmaceuticals and beverages, which increased production by, respectively, 20.3% and 4.8%. The two activities are in the category of semi-durable and non-durable consumer goods, which...

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Producer Price Index increases under the influence of petroleum and ethanol

After two months of negative results, the Producer Price Index (IPP) records an advance of 0.31% in August – a figure very much influenced by the sector of petroleum refining and ethanol products, which achieved a change of 6.48% – the highest one in the series started in 2009. The cumulative indicator...

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Number of black men killed by Covid exceeded that of white ones in 2020

Children aged up to 14 face highest extreme and extreme poverty rates - Photo: Tânia Rego/Brazil Agency. Last year, Covid-19 was the reported cause of death of 209.7 thousand deaths in the country, being 200.6 thousand deaths with informed color or race. Of that total, 101,9 thousand were white and 98.7...

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GDP stays at -0.1% in third quarter influenced by drop in agriculture

Concentration of soybeans harvest in the first quarter caused a drop of 8.0% in agriculture in the third quarter - Photo: José Fernando Ogura/AEN-PR The Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which is the sum of the final goods and services produced in Brazil, stayed at -0.1% in the third quarter this year compared...

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Services sector grows 10.9% in 2021 and overcomes 2020 losses

Transportation sector drives up services in 2021 - Photo: Rodrigo Felix/SEIL-PR The services sector grew 10.9% in 2021, after having dropped 7.8% in 2020. That was the biggest rate for the end of a year since the beginning of the time series in 2012. In the comparison between December and November, the...

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Inflation decelerates to 0.07%, the lowest for March since economic measures of Plano Real

Prices of food at home increased 1.40% in March - Photo: Eduardo Peret/IBGE News Agency After registering a rise of 0.25% in February, the official inflation in Brazil decelerated to 0.07% in March, according to the Extended National Consumer Price Index - IPCA released today (9) by the IBGE. This was...

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Inflation exceeds middle of the target and hits 4.31% in 2019

Food and beverages were heavy on the population's budget last year - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency According to the Extended National Consumer Price Index (IPCA), released today (10) by the IBGE, the official inflation closed the year of 2019 at 4.31%. The rate surpassed the target core of 4.25%,...

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After four years of decrease, employment in industry increased by 0.7% in 2018

Industry employed 7.7 million persons in 2018, a slight increase against the previous year Photo: São Paulo State Government The number of persons employed in Brazilian industry increased by about 0.7% from 2017 to 2018, the biggest increase since 2013. Mining and quarrying industries increased in relevance...

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After four years of decrease, employment in industry increased 0.7% in 2018

Industry employed 7.7 million persons in 2018, a slight increase against the previous year Photo: São Paulo State Government The number of persons employed in Brazilian industry increased by about 0.7% from 2017 to 2018, the biggest increase since 2013. Mining and quarrying industries increased in relevance...

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With a deflation of 0.38% in May, IPCA registered the lowest rate in 22 years

Drop in the gasoline price pressed deflation of 0.38% in May - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency Pressed by the drop of 4.56% in fuel prices, the country registered a deflation of 0.38% in May, after the decrease of 0.31% in April. It is the second consecutive month of price drop and the lowest...

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Retail sales grow 1.2% in July and reach record level

Personal and household articles had the biggest increase in July - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency The sales volume of the retail trade in the country grew 1.2% in July, in the comparison with the previous month recording the fourth positive rate in a row. As a result, the sector’s level reached...

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Biggest high in materials in the year leverages construction cost in November

Driven by the largest increase in materials (0.67%) registered in 2017, the National Index of Coinstruction (Sinapi), released today by the IBGE, had the second highest increase in the year in November (0.48%). Meanwhile, the cumulative index in the year was 3.64% and in the last 12 months, 4.15%. Only...

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Inflation accelerates to 0.51% in November, highest rise for this month since 2015

Rise of 8.09% in the price of meat was the major impact on the November´s inflation - Photo: Eduardo Peret/IBGE News Agency As released by the IBGE today (6), the skyrocketing of the prices of meat made the Extended National Consumer Price Index - IPCA accelerate to 0.51% in November, after rising 0.10%...

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Cultural sector has average inflation of 3.5% in seven years, below the IPCA

New indicators monitors the prices of a fixed basket of cultural goods and services - Photo: Simone Mello/IBGE News Agency Culture-related prices recorded an average annual increase of 3.5%, below the official inflation, which was 5.9% between 2012 and 2018, as reported in the System of Cultural Information...