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Costs of civil construction rise 0.11% in May, lowest rate since November 2016

Despite the deceleration, costs of civil construction rose 0.11% in May - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency Released today by the IBGE, the National Index of Civil Construction - Sinapi rose 0.11% in May, a result below the rate of 0.34% in April. This was the lowest rate since November 2016,...

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Revision of GDP 2016 points to a decrease of 3.3% against previous year

In its consolidated result, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 2016 reached R$ 6.267 trillion and its decrease in volume against 2015 was revised from 3.5% to 3.3%, thus confirming downward trend for the second year in a row (in 2015, there was a change of -3.5%). Per capita GDP was R$ 30,548, with...

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Expenditure on health in 2019 represented 9.6% of the GDP

Final consumption of goods and services in the country reaached R$ 711.4 billion in 2019 - Photo: Jundiaí Municipal Government Health-related expenditure in the country in 2019 amounted to R$711.4 billion, which is equivalent to 9.6% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which is the sum of all goods...

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Due to reduced airfare prices, inflation preview hits lowest result in June since 2006

Airfare prices fell by 26.08% in June - Photo: Marcello Casal Jr/Agência Brasil Affected by the result of airfare prices (-26,08%), June's inflation preview was of 0.02%, the lowest for a month of June since 2006, when the rate was -0.15%. Transportation (-0.71%) accounted for the main negative figure,...

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Construction costs grow 1.99% in January, greatest rise since 2013

Construction materials increased 2.96%, especially steel, wood and PVC - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency The National Index of Civil Construction (Sinapi), released today (9) by the IBGE, rose 1.99% in January compared to December and reached the highest rate in the series with exemption in the...

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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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With lowest result in December within the Real Plan, inflation meets target and closes 2018 at 3.75%

Having recorded its lowest result in a month of December since 1994 (0.15%), inflation in 2018 stayed at 3.75%, within the target set by the federal government, 4.5% with a margin of 1.5 percentage points above or below. In spite fo that, the Extended Consumer Price Index (IPCA), released today by the...

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Slaughter of chickens and hogs and pigs hits a record figure and falls again in 2021

With a record of exports and high domestic consumption, slaughter of chickens was the biggest in the time series - Photo: Governo do Estado de São Paulo Slaughter of chickens in Brazil reached 6.18 billion in 2021, which represents an increase of 2.8% - or 169.87 million chickens more - against 2020....

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Electricity ignites inflation forecast of November

The increase in residential electricity bills was one of the factors that contributed the most to the 0.32% increase in the inflation forecast, the National Extended Consumer Price Index (IPCA-15), published in November by IBGE . The cumulative index in 2017 is 2.58%, while the index of the last 12 months...

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New PNAD TIC will investigate streaming, 5G, the Internet of things, applications and work from home

Survey innovations were presented by Cimar Azeredo Pereira, IBGE's Director of Surveys, after the release of PNAD TIC 2021, on September 16, in Brasília - Photo: SDI-DF/IBGE News Agency Last Friday (16), the IBGE announced, im Brasília, changes in the thematic module on Information and Communication...

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Better income and low inflation foster increase in trade sales

The volume of retail trade increased 3.2% in January in the same month, the tenth positive result in this type of comparison. Against December 2017, there was smaller increase, of 0.9%, after the decrease recorded in the previous month. That is what shows the Monthly Survey of Trade, released today by...

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Civil construction prices hit the top in the year

After registering the second consecutive high, construction prices in June reached the highest level of the year, 0.58%, standing 0.03 percentage points above the 0.55% recorded in May. The information is from the National Index of Construction (Sinapi), released today by the IBGE. The prices of construction...

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Prices of civil construction rise 0.30% in May

Computed by the IBGE, the National Index of Civil Construction - Sinapi increased 0.30% in May, a rise of 0.15 percentage points in relation to April (0.15%). As a result, the cost of construction per square meter in Brazil stayed at R$1,042.69, being R$536.24 relative to materials and R$506.45, to labor...

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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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Industrial prices begin 2021 rising 3.36% in January

Mining sector registered the highest rise and influence on the industrial prices in January - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency Industrial prices rose 3.36% in January 2021 over December 2020. The rate is quite higher than that recorded between November and December (0.39%), and it represents...

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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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Unemployment rises to 12.2% and hits 12.9 million in Q1 2020

More than 1,2 million persons were in search of a job in Brazil in the first quarter of 2020 - Photo: Dênio Simões/Brasília Local Branch The unemployment rate increased to 12.2% in the first quarter this year, an increase of 1.3 percentage points (p.p) in comparison with the last quarter of 2019, according...

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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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Annual average unemployment rate decreases in most states in 2021

Annual average unemployment rate in 2021 is second highest since the beginning of the series - Photo: Helena Pontes/Agência IBGE Notícias The average annual unemployment rate in Brazil fell from 13.8% in 2020to 13.2% in 2021 e esse movimento de queda foi acompanhado pela maior parte das regiões. Also,...

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With eight highs in electricity in a row, inflation forecast stands at 0.09 in September

Electricity rises 2.31% in September and accumulates a high of 11.55% in the year - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency Affected by the eighth consecutive increase in electricity, September's Extended Consumer Price Index 15 (IPCA-15) stood at 0.09%, close to August (0.08%). With this result, the...