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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...

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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...

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Rise in supermarket sales limits retail losses to 2.5% in March

Hypermarket and supermarket sales skyrocket 14.6% and prevent a larger drop in retail - Photo: Eduardo Peret/IBGE News Agency According to the Monthly Survey of Trade - PMC released today (13) by the IBGE, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic can be seen in March with the drop of 2.5% in the sales of...

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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...

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Inflation preview hits 0.54%, highest figure since March 2015

Food products drive inflation preview upwards: pinto beans rose 41.44% - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency The inflation preview accelerated to 0.54% in March, driven by the rise of prices of food products and transportation, by 1.28% and 0.59%, respectively. That is the biggest change for a month...

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Inflation reaches 0.4% under pressure from electricity and fuels

Influenced by the increases in electricity, gasoline and diesel, inflation rose from 0.22% to 0.40% in May. In the case of electricity, the rise was 3.53%, after the yellow flag was in force and also after the increases in seven capitals, reaching 18.53% in Belo Horizonte and 16.95% in Salvador. The...

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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...

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Business tourism takes off in June, rises up services sector

Tourism activities stood out in the services sector in June, influencing the 1.3% increase over May. "Due to business tourism, the activities of housing and air transportation increased this month, which usually benefit São Paulo and the Federal District", explains Roberto Saldanha, manager of the Monthly...

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Civil construction prices record drop in seven states

In October, the National Index of Civil Construction (SINAPI) recorded one of the lowest rates of the year (-0.16%), registering decrease in seven states, with a highlight to Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo. Still in October, the share of materials presented a lower change (0.20%) than the one seen...

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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...

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GDP grows 1.2% in first quarter, returns to pre-pandemic level

GDP registered the third positive figure in the pandemic - Photo: Marcelo Seabra/Agência Pará The Gross Domestic Product - GDP grew 1.2% in the first quarter this year compared with the last quarter last year. This is the third positive figure, after retreating in the first (-2.2%) and second (-9.2%)...

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North and Northeast push unemployment to record figure in Brazil in Q1

Unemployment rate of the black population (18.6%) is higher than among whites (11.9%) - Photo: Jader Paes/Pará State Branch The record unemployment rate of 14.7% in the country resulted mainly from the contributions of the North Region, with a change from 12.4%, in the last quarter of 2020, to 14.8%,...

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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...

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Inflation speeds up to 1.16% in September, highest for the month since 1994

With water scarcity flag, electricity rose 6.47% in September and accumulated an increase of 28.82% in 12 months. Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency Inflation rose 1.16% in September, the highest for the month since 1994, when the index was 1.53%. As a result, the indicator accumulates highs of...

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Inflation preview stays at 0.93%, highest figure in March since 2015

Gasoline price rises for ninth month in a row- Photo: Lícia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency The Extended National Consumer Price Index 15 (IPCA-15) reached 0.93% in March and was 0.45 percentage points (p.p.) above the February rate (0.48%). That is the highest result in March since 2015, when the index...

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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...

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Services sector closes 2019 growing 1%, first rise in five years

Information and communication services, like search engines, leveraged the rise of the sector this year Photo: Pixabay Volume of services increased 1% in 2019, interrupting a sequence of four years without positive results: 2015 (-3.6%), 2016 (-5.0%), 2017 (-2.8%) and 2018 (0%). These are data from the...

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GDP grows 1.0% in first quarter, leveraged by services sector

Restaurant services are among those that influenced the growth of the GDP - Photo: Vanderlei Farias/Secom Cascavel The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew 1.0% in the first quarter this year, compared with the last quarter a year ago. This is the third positive figure after the retreat in the second quarter...

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Despite the pandemic, number of companies in the market remains positive in 2020

In 2020, 826,4 thousand companies started their activities and 634.4 thousand were closed - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/ IBGE News Agency The balance between companies entering and exiting the market remined positive in 2020: 192,0 thousand. In spite of the pandemic, that was the second year with a positive...

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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...