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Sales drop 0.6% in April, retail loses strength after two months stable

The sector of hypermarkets accrues a loss of 3.4% between February and April - Photo: Eduardo Peret/IBGE News Agency Volume of sales of the retail dropped 0.6% in April in relation to March, after two months of stability. This result is the worst for April since 2015 (-1%). As a result, the sector is...

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IBGE defends the need for the 2021 Census budget

In an article published in O GLOBO (Brazilian newspaper) on Monday (March 22), the IBGE president, Ms. Susana Cordeiro Guerra, and the Director of Surveys, Mr. Eduardo Rios-Neto, defended the need to restore the 2021 Population Census's allocated money. Next, you will find the translated versions of...

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Number of people tested for Covid-19 rises to 25.7 million by October

Within a month, nearly 3.7 million people got tested for Covid - Photo: Christiano Antonucci/Governo MT The number of people who got tested for Covid-19 rose to 25.7 million in October. Of this total, about 5.7 million tested positive for the disease, which corresponds to 22.4% of the people who tested...

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Use of geospatial technologies updates Brazilian borderland strip (2)

A bridge connects the municipality of Foz do Iguaçu (PR) with Puerto Iguazu, in Argentine - Photo: Fernando Araújo/IBGE With the aid of a group of modern geospatial technologies, the IBGE has updated the length of the border strip that connects it with South American countries. That national security...

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Automotive sector contributes to production growth in São Paulo

Driven by the automotive sector, the industrial production in São Paulo grew 14.8% in the comparison between April this year and the same month of 2017, according to the data of the Monthly Survey of Industry (PIM) - Regional Production, released today by the IBGE. The state was one of the 13 places...

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Infrastructure works lose share in sector in 10 years

The share of infrastructure works in civil construction strongly dropped between 2007 and 2016, changing from 41.3% to 29.5% of the value added. As the investments in public works decelerated, building construction and specialized services increased. These data are in the Annual Survey of Construction...

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Electricity bill doubles inflation in May

Influenced by the increase in the electricity bills, the May inflation reached 0.31%, more than doubling the rate of April (0.14%). Bereft of the discount applied in April, which offset the improper charge of the Charge of Reserve Power - EER, the electricity bills rose 8.98% in May, accounting for 0.29...

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Birth reports fall for the first time since 2010

Birth reports in Brazil amounted to 2.79 million in 2016, with a decrease of 5.1% in relation to 2015 figure, 2.95 million. That is the first reduction observed since 2010, even below the 2011 result, 2.80 million. Among the states, Roraima recorded a slight increase of 3.9%, as reported today by the...

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Leveraged by women, consumption of alcohol increases among Brazilians in 2019

According to the PNS, number of women drinking at least once a week increased - Photo: Marcelo Camargo/Agência Brasil Brazilians are consuming more alcoholic beverages. Or rather, women: 17% of adult women stated to have drunk once or more per week in 2019. The index is 4.1 percentage points higher than...

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Sales increase 0.3% in March and trade ends first quarter on the rise

Sales of pharmaceuticals, medical articles and cosmetics pushed the March trade upwards - Photo: Luiz Agner/IBGE Retail sales volume increased 0.3% in March, im comparison with the previous month, after stability of trade in February. As a result, the first quarter closed the year on the rise, with 0.3%...

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Inflation preview: 0.34% is the lowest rate for a month of February in the Plano Real era

Adjustment in school fees were relevant in the 3.52% increase in Education - Photo: Pedro Girão The inflation preview is 0.34% in February, after recording 0.30% in January. The result was the same as in February 2000, and recorded the lowest rate in the series since the start of Plano Real, in July...

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Clean energy impacts GDP of Northeastern municipalities

Wind energy makes energy matrix more sustainable - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency With the increasing participation of wind and solar energies, the Brazilian energy matrix has been becoming even more sustainable. According to the Brazilian Energy Balance 2018 of the Energy Research Office -...

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Industrial output grows 0.8% in October, third rise in a row

Industry had the best October since 2012, when it grew 1.5% - Photo: Marcelo Benedicto/IBGE News Agency According to the Monthly Industrial Survey, released today (4) by the IBGE, the output of the Brazilian industry grew 0.8% in October compared with the previous month, mainly leveraged by food products...

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Transportation recovers in 2017, only segment of services to grow in the year

Even dropping 2.8% in volume of the services sector in 2017, the segment of transportation recovered and grew 2.3% in the year, the first rise since 2014. The data came from the Monthly Survey of Services - PMS, released today by the IBGE, which also pointed out a positive change of 0.5% between November...

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IBGE updates free web application manual for GPS users

The IBGE launches today (16) a new edition of the manual for the online Precise Point Positioning Service (PPP), a free web application that provides latitude logitude and height coordinates coordinates from any position on the planet. The web app generated by equipment that collect signals from satellite...

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Automotive sector leads to first increase of industrial output in three years

Industrial output closed year 2017 with an increase of 2.5% against the 2016 figure. That is the first annual positive result since 2013, when there was a hike of 2.1%, the biggest increase since 2010, year of the record figure of 10.2% in the time series that started in 2002. There was a change of 2.8%...

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Geographic names identify places and let us know about their history

A landscape formed by several geographic features and the names used to identify them - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency Streets with uneven paving, made of stones*, and the colonial houses of the historical center of Paraty, a municipality in the south of Rio de Janeiro state, were the background...

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[Retratos] Frontiers of rural Amazon

The reality of the agricultural establishments located in the rural Amazon will be also portrayed in the Census of Agriculture 2017, carried out by the IBGE. Data collection began in October this year and should last up to February 2018. Yet, where does the Amazon begin and end? One way to look at this...

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Six out of every ten enterprises experience negative effects of the Covid-19 pandemic

Pandemic affected 65.5% of the 1.2 million enterprises in the services segment - Photo: Tomaz Silva/Agência Brasil Among the 2.8 million enterprises in operation in the second half of June, 62.4% felt negative effects of the novel coronavirus pandemic on their activities. The impact was bigger in small-sized...

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Fuels and food products have an impact on October inflation preview

The inflation preview (IPCA-15), released today by the IBGE, rose from 0.09% in September to 0.58% in October. The groups Transportation (1.65%) and food products (0.44%) accounted for the acceleration of the IPCA-15, and accounted for about 70% of the monthly index. The cumulative index reached 3.83%...