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61.7% of the Brazilian population were overweight, and 26.8%, obese - Photo: Charles de Moura / PMSJC The percentage of obese adults in Brazil more than doubled in 17 years, with a change from 12.2%, between 2002 and 2003, to 26.8%, in 2019. In the same period, the proportion of overweight adults changed...
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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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Retail sales grow 3.4% and reach a record in August
Retail trade of fabric, wearing apparel and footwear led rising results in August, with 30.5% - Photo: Cláudio Vieira/PMSJC Retail trade grew 3.4% in August, against the July figure, the fourth month straight increase, after decreases due to the pandemic in March and April. With this result, the sector...
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GDP up 1.1% closing 2019 at R$7.3 trillion
Household consumption was the greatest contribution to GDP growth in 2019 - photo: Eduardo Peret/IBGE News Agency The Gross Domestic Product (GDP), released today by the IBGE, closed 2019 with an increase of 1.1%, totaling R$7.257 trillion. This is the third positive result, after the increases of 1.3%...
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Number of persons away from work due to the pandemic falls to 6.2 million in the 3rd week of July
Most of those away from work returned to the same positions they held before the pandemic - Photo: Charles de Moura/PMSJC The number of persons temporarily away from work due to social distancing fell for the eighth week in a row, with a change from 7 million in the second week of July to 6.2 million...
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Industry prices fall 1.46% in December, but 2018 boosts the series
The decline of 1.46% in industry prices in December was not enough to avoid the 9.76% increase in the cumulative index in 2018, which was the highest in the time series started in 2014. The data are from the Producer Price Index (IPP), published today by the IBGE, which measures the price changes of...
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Previous inflation stays at 0.30%, lowest rate for January since 1995
The previous inflation stayed at 0.30% in January, the lowest rate for January since the implementation of the Real Plan in July 1994, whereas the cumulative index over the last 12 months stood at 3.77%. The rate was 0.39% compared with January 2018. The information is from the Extended National Consumer...
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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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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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Employment remains stable, but underutilized population is the biggest since 2012
The survey registered records of underutilized, underemployed and discouraged workers - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News agencies Unemployment remained stable and reached 13 million persons in the quarter ended in May, but the underutilized contingent was the largest since 2012, reaching 28.5 million...
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On the eve of the 2020 Census, have a sneak peak of the news that marked the year at the IBGE
Throughout 2019, the IBGE News Agency has disclosed information produced by the IBGE in order to accomplish its mission of portraying Brazil for the exercise of citizenship. The main results of studies and surveys, in the fields of geography and statistics, were highlighted in news and articles, complemented with...
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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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Trade sector increases hiring in 2017, but does not make up for three-year losses
Trade sector recorded a real increase of 7% in net revenue from 2016 to 2017 - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency The trade sector employed 10.2 million persons in 2017, which means 98.2 thousand employed persons more than in 2016. However, that increase was not enough to recover the loss of 411.8...
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Eight in every ten youngsters who never attended school were unemployed in Brazil in 2019
The earlier young people drop out of school, the greater are their chances of being unemployed - Photo: Arquivo Agência Brasil About 82.3% of young people aged 15 to 29 who never attended school were unemployed in 2019, according to the Summary of Social Indicators, released today (12) by the IBGE. The...
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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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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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Deceleration of beef prices results in inflation preview of 0.71% in January
Beef prices rose 4.83% and affected the IPCA-15 of January - Photo: Eduardo Peret/IBGE News Agency The Extended National Consumer Price Index 15 (IPCA-15), official inflation preview, was 0.71% in January, after reaching 1.05% in December 2019, as released today (23) by the IBGE. That is the highest...
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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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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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[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...