Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística

News Agency

Fuels contribute to deflation of 0.31% in April, lowest index in 22 years

Gasoline deflation was registered in all the 16 areas surveyed in April - Tony Winston/Brasilia Local Branch With a decrease of 9.59% in fuels prices, deflation in the country was 0.31% in April, after recording 0.07% in March. The result is the lowest monthly change since August 1998, when it reached...

News Agency

Crops bring unprecedented drop in food industry prices in 2018

Driven by the record crop of Brazilian agriculture, the food industry had the first drop in prices in one year (-7.29%) since 2010, when the time series of the Producer Price Index (IPP), released today by IBGE, began. Good harvests of soybeans, sugarcane and rice were some of the causes of such result,...

News Agency

Pork gains ground in Brazil and abroad

Because of the change in household consumption patterns and the growth in exports, the slaughter of hogs and pigs had its best 2nd quarter since the beginning of the time series. Between April and June 2017, there were 10.62 million head of hogs and pigs, whereas cattle slaughter decreased 3.7% in relation...

News Agency

Specialized services increase participation in construction sector between 2010 and 2019

Population employed in industry records first increase since 2014 - Photo: Gilson Abreu/AEN-PR Construction industry generated R$ 288.0 billion in value of real estate development, works and/or services in 2019, with R$ 273.8 for works and/or services (95.1%) and R$ 14.2 billion for real estate development...

News Agency

Tomorrow, Producer Price Index will start to provide more detailed information

The IBGE will release tomorrow (05/11) a new edition of the Producer Price Index (IPP), this time relative to September. That will be the first release of the survey with detailed information, in a total 23 new series. With this change, the IPP will have groups data at a three-digit level in the National...

News Agency

With 1% increase in April, sector has the first positive rate in the year

After starting the year with two negative rates and stability, services grew 1% in April compared to March. The change was not enough to reverse the cumulatice negative change in the year, which is -0.6%. In relation to April 2017, the volume of services increased 2.2%, the highest since March 2015....

News Agency

Number of organizations with at least one employed person grows 3.4% in 2019

Number of salaried personnel grew 1.7%, with a positive balance of 758.6 thousand persons - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/Agência IBGE Notícias After having registered three consecutive years of declines, the number of formal organizations grew again in the country, reaching 5.2 million in 2019 (up 6.1%)....

News Agency

Crop estimate declines in February, but record crop forecast is confirmed

Corn crop is expected to grow 23.9% compared to 2021 - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency The national grain crop should reach 261.6 million metric tons in 2022, according to the February estimate of the Systematic Survey of Agricultural Production (LSPA), released today (March 10) by the IBGE. This...

News Agency

Inflation preview: fuels push 2018 figure below expected target

The inflation target (IPCA-15), released today by the IBGE, changed by -0.16% in December, versus 0.19% in November. That was the lowest monthly result since July 2017 and the lowest rate for a month of December sincr the start of Plano Real, in. The cumulative rate in the year stayed at 3.86%, below...

News Agency

Eating out consumes one third of expenditures of households with food

Families began to eat more away from home in rural areas, though habit is bigger in urban sector - Photo: IBGE Archive Eating away from home is becoming an option for more and more persons. Of the total expenditures of the Brazilian households with food, nearly one third (32.8%) is dedicated to meals...

News Agency

Civil construction costs increase 0.42% in January

The value of labor force influenced the 0.42% high in the civil construction prices - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency The National Index of Civil Construction (SINAPI), released today by the IBGE, increased 0.42% in January, a result higher than the 0.22% of December 2018. The increase was influenced...

News Agency

Estimate indicates decrease, but 2019 is expected to have 3rd biggest harvest in the time series

The first output estimate for next year points to a decrease of 0.2% agains the 2018 figure. Nevertheless, the expected 226.7 million metric tons (t) of cereals, legumes and oilseeds make up the third biggest estimate in the Systematic Survey of Agricultural Production time series, which started in 1975....

News Agency

Retail sales level off in November after series of increases

Hipermarkets and supermarkets record decrease in volume of sales in November - Photo: Helena Pontes/Agência IBGE Notícias After six consecutive months of increase with cumulative gains of 32.2%,volume of sales remained stable from October and November 202, with a change of -0.1%. Against the same period...

News Agency

Trade has record drop of 4% in job positions in 2020

Sector of wearing apparel registered the highest drop in personnel among trade activities in 2020 (-15.3%). - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency In the first year of the pandemic, the Brazilian trade lost 4.0% of employment, 7.4% of enterprises and 7.0% of stores. Of the 404.1 thousand workers who...

News Agency

At the Saint Benedict’s Monastery: enumeration in a collective household

Monks living in the Saint Benedict’s Monatery are enumerated in Zeptember - Photo: Jessica Cândido/IBGE News Agency At 7:15 in the morning, monks living in the Saint Benedict’s Monatery, downtown Rio, started to sing Gregorian chant for the morning Mass. When the 45-celebration that takes pace in the...

News Agency

Southeast concentrates more than one third of urbanized areas in Brazil

Urban concentration of São Paulo holds the largest urbanized area in Brazil - Picture: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency In 2019, Brazil had 45,945 km2 of urbanized areas, the equivalent to 0.54% of the Brazilian area. More than one third (36.5%) of the Brazilian urbanized areas is concentrated in the...

News Agency

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,...

News Agency

Unemployment hits 14 million people in fourth week of September

With the relaxation of the isolation, more people press the labor market looking for jobs - Photo: Bruno Cecim/ Agência Pará According to PNAD COVID19, released today (16) by the IBGE, the number of unemployed persons hit 14 million in the fourth week of September, remaining statistically stable against...

News Agency

Services grow 0.7% in August, fourth positive rate in a row

The rise of 6.7% in other services is related with auxiliary financial services - Photo: Pixabay After advancing 1.3% in the previous month, volume of services rendered in Brazil grew 0.7% in August. It is the fourth consecutive positive figure, leading to a cumulative gain of 3.3% in this period. As...

News Agency

GDP grows 3.2% in Q4 but closes the year falling 4.1%, the greatest drop in 25 years

Services rendered to families, as restaurants, were the most affected by the pandemic - Photo: Tomaz Silva/Agência Brasil The country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) advanced 3.2% in the fourth quarter of 2020, but closed the year with a 4.1% decrease, totaling R$ 7.4 trillion. It is the biggest annual...