Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística

News Agency

Industry prices rise for the third time and stay at 0.64% in October

Fuel prices pushed industry inflation in October - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency The Producer Price Index (IPP), which monitors the prices of mining and quarrying and manufacturing industry, recorded an increase of 0.64% in October, in comparison with September, as released today by the IBGE....

News Agency

Despite economic losses in 2020 due to Covid-19, crops are to hit record

Soybean crops are to grow 121 million tonnes this year - Photo: Mônica Marli/IBGE News Agency Unlike the other economic indicators that accumulate losses due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the national grain crop should break a new record and reach 247 million tonnes in 2020, according to the April estimate...

News Agency

Supermarkets lead revenue and employment generation ranking in 2018

The sector of hyper and supermarkets accounted for 3.2% of the trade revenue in 2018 - Photo: Eduardo Peret/IBGE News Agency The sector of hyper and supermarkets generated most jobs in 2018 and employed 45.7 thousand persons more against the figure in 2017; it also led in terms of contribution (13.2%)...

News Agency

Retail sales grow 1% in April and accumulate 3% in four months

From March to April 2018, the retail increased 1.0% in the seasonally-adjusted series, according to the Monthly Survey of Trade released today by the IBGE. With the exception of other articles of personal and domestic use - which remained stable - all other activities registered an increase in sales....

News Agency

Cattle slaughter increases 4%, surpasses 8 million head in Q3

Amount of cattle slaughtered increased 4% in relation to the second quarter - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency Cattle slaughter hit 8.35 million head in the third quarter this year, an increase of 4% over the previous quarter, when 8.08 million animals were slaughtered for consumption. According...

News Agency

Inflation preview for May is 0.24%

Influenced by the annual price adjustments of medicines, the Extended National Consumer Price Index 15 - IPCA-15 of May stayed above that registered in April (0.21%). The medicine prices rose 2.08% as a result of the annual price adjustment, in force since March 31. The percentage of the raise swung...

News Agency

First estimate forecasts record harvest of grains in 2021

First forecast shows that harvest will break a record in 2021, leveraged by soybeans and corn - Photo: Abiove The Brazilian harvest of grains, cereals and legumes should add up to 253.2 million tonnes in 2021, in case the first projection of the Systematic Survey of Agricultural Production - LSPA, released...

News Agency

Inflation closes 2017 at 2.95% and stands below target floor

Having changed 0.44% between November and December, the highest rise in the year, the Extended National Consumer Price Index - IPCA stayed at 2.95% in 2017. This was the lowest index since 1998, when the IPCA registered 1.65%, and it was 3.34 percentage points (p.p.) below the rate of 6.29% in 2016....

News Agency

IBGE updates names of 8 municipalities in geographic and statistical databases

Paraty (RJ) had its name updated in the IBGE´s database in 2017 - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency The IBGE released on Thursday (7) a list of the municipalities that had their names updated in the Institute´s geographic and statistical databases, such as the Brazilian National Spatial Data Infrastructure...

News Agency

Number of establishments using pesticides increases by 20.4%

Increase in the use of pesticides can be made worse by misuse and lack of inspection - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency The number of establishments that reported the use of pesticides increased by 20.4% in the last 11 years. The data come from the 2017 Census of Agriculture, released today by...

News Agency

Gasoline and electricity take inflation to 0.36%, the highest one for July since 2016

Fuel prices increased 3.12% and had an impact on July's inflationHelena Pontes/IBGE News Agency The influence of July stood at 0.36%, influenced, mainly, by gasoline and electricity prices, the two items of greatest impact and which underwent increases. This was the lowest figure for July since 2016,...

News Agency

Recording its fifth annual decrease, construction industry employs 1,9 million workers in 2018

Despite the retraction, reduction of workforce is the lowest since 2014 - Photo: Simone Mello/IBGE News Agency The number of persons employed in construction industry fell 1.7% in 2018 versus the previous year, with a reduction by 31,5 thousand work positions. Despite the retraction, that was the lowest...

News Agency

Output increases by 0.1% in November after four-month decrease

The output of industry increased 0.1% in November, in comparison with October, after four months of negative rates, and had a cumulative increase of 1.5% in 2018. Those data como from the Monthly Survey of Industry, released today by the IBGE, which also presents the revision of the October figure from 0.2%...

News Agency

Second estimate anticipates ecord in 2021grain crop

Record crop estimate in 2021 is driven by the 5.1% soybean production rise - Photo: Jaelson Lucas / AEN-PR The Brazilian harvest of grains, cereals and legumes should reach 256.8 million metric tons in 2021, according to the second forecast of the Systematic Survey of Agricultural Production (LSPA),...

News Agency

After rise of meat prices, egg production reaches highest figure in 33 years

More than a billion dozen of eggs were produced in Brazil in Q3 - Photo: Arnaldo Alves/AEN-PR Production of hen eggs reached 1.01 billion dozen in Q3 this year. That is the highest figure in the time series that started in 1987. Increases were recorded against Q3 2019 (3.8%) and Q2 2020 (3.6%). Data...

News Agency

Salary adjustments impact prices of civil construction

The National Index of Civil Construction - SINAPI changed 0.58% in July, standing 0.20 percentage points above the rate of 0.38% registered in June. The factor that mostly influenced this figure was salary adjustment of workers of this sector. According to Augusto Oliveira, researcher of the IBGE, the...

News Agency

Inflation preview rises to 0.14%, yet index is lowest for November in 21 years

Rise in fuels influenced slight acceleration of IPCA-15 in November - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency Preview of the official inflation in Brazil, the Extended National Consumer Price Index 15 - IPCA-15 increased to 0.14% in November, after registering 0.09% in the previous month. This was the...

News Agency

Retail sales up 1.8% in April - highest increase for the month since 2000

The sector of Supermarkets was the only to fall in April - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency Sales in retail trade rose 1.8% from March to April, the biggest increase for the month since 2000, after falling by 1.1% in March. As a result, retail was 0.9% above the pre-pandemic level. The sector has...

News Agency

Balance between open and closed enterprises returns to positive in 2019

In 2019, 947.3 thousand enterprises became active and 656.4 thousand closed their doors - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency The balance between enterprises that opened and closed in 2019 in Brazil became positive once again at 290.9 thousand. After registering a negative balance of 65.9 thousand...

News Agency

Unemployment levels off at 14.2% in quarter ended January

Informal work pushes employment increase - Photo: Rovena Rosa/Agência Brasil The number of unemployed persons in Brazil was estimated at 14.3 million in the quarter ended January, biggest number since 2012, start of the time series for the Continuous National Household Sample Survey (Continuous PNAD),...