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POF: Socioeconomic performance index for Brazil grows 12.8% between 2008 and 2018

Roraima was the state with the best socioeconomic performance, with an advance of 32.0% in the IDS in nearly ten years - Picture: Boa Vista City Hall The IBGE released today (23) an updating of the indicators that measure the quality of life of the Brazilian population. The two indexes were released...

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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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Food products keep holding inflation back

Food products, responsible for 25% of household expenditure, recorded the main negative resullt in the Extended National Consumer Price Index 15 (IPCA-15) of July, with a decrease of 0.14 percentage points. Most of those products got cheaper from June to July: potato (-19.07%), tomato (-8.48%) and fruits...

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Producer Price Index increases under the influence of petroleum and ethanol

After two months of negative results, the Producer Price Index (IPP) records an advance of 0.31% in August – a figure very much influenced by the sector of petroleum refining and ethanol products, which achieved a change of 6.48% – the highest one in the series started in 2009. The cumulative indicator...

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June's inflation stays at 0.01%, the lowest rate of the year

Decrease in fruit prices contributes to deflation of 0.25% in food in June - Photo: Luiz Agner/IBGE The Extended National Consumer Price Index (IPCA), which measures the official inflation in the country, was 0.01% in June, the lowest rate for 2019. The index accumulated a high of 2.23% in the year and...

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Pharmaceuticals boost industry’s result in October

With a positive change of 0.2% in October compared to September, the industrial sector was influenced mainly by the pharmaceuticals and beverages, which increased production by, respectively, 20.3% and 4.8%. The two activities are in the category of semi-durable and non-durable consumer goods, which...

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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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With fourth increase in a row, inflation in industry rises 1.43% in May

Mining and quarrying prices rose 6.50% in May, pushed by the oil sector - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/Agência IBGE Notícias Prices in industry rose 1.43% in May, against April, due to hikes in the sectors of food products, oil products and mining and quarrying. This is the fourth consecutive month of rise...

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IPCA-15 drops 0.59% in May, highest deflation since the beginning of Real Plan

Drop in fule prices pressed the IPCA-15 downward in May - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency Influenced by the drop in fuel prices, the early inflation of May registered -0.59%, the most intense deflation since the beginning of the Real Plan, in July 1994. Having fallen 8.51%, gasoline was the item...

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Rise of 0.55% is highest in year

Released today by the IBGE, the National Index of Civil Construction - Sinapi rose 0.55% in May compared with April, the highest monthly rate in 2018. In the cumulative index in the year, the rise was of 1.53%, whereas the result for the last 12 months stayed at 3.87%. Inflation for this sector was strongly...

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Costs of civil construction rose 1.07% in November

Rise in the prices of construction is losing pace - Photo: Helga Szpiz/IBGE News Agency Released today (10) by the IBGE, the National Index of Civil Construction (Sinapi) rose 1.07% in November, maintaining the level of the previous month (1.01%). In the cumulative index of the last 12 months, the rate...

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Costs of construction rise 18.65% in 2021, highest rate in nine years

Costs of construction material impacted on the index along the year - Photo: Simone Mello/IBGE News Agency Released today (11) by the IBGE, the National Index of Civil Construction (Sinapi) decelerated to 0.52% in December, the lowest rate in 2021. Even so, the cumulative index in the year hit 18.65%,...

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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 1.0% 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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Unemployment decreases in 5 states and increases in Roraima, only; Northeast Region has highest rate

The decrease of the national unemployment rate to 11.9% in the quarter ended September was concentrated in only five Federation Units (Rio de Janeiro, Ceará, Minas Gerais, Tocantins and Mato Grosso), whereas Roraima was rhe only state to record a hike in the period, of 13.5%. Among the Major Regions,...

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Inflation reaches 0.86% in October, the highest increase for the month since 2002

Tomatoes' prices almost 19% up in Ocotber - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency The price rise in food and airfare put October inflation under pressure, accelerating it to 0.86%, above the rate registered in September (0.64%). This is the highest result for a October since 2002, when the indicator...

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Biggest high in materials in the year leverages construction cost in November

Driven by the largest increase in materials (0.67%) registered in 2017, the National Index of Coinstruction (Sinapi), released today by the IBGE, had the second highest increase in the year in November (0.48%). Meanwhile, the cumulative index in the year was 3.64% and in the last 12 months, 4.15%. Only...

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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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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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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...