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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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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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In five states: international observers watch data collection and learn about 2022 Census

IBGE brought international observers to watch the 2022 Census data collection - Photo: Jessica Cândido/IBGE News Agency As the 2022 Census collection went on, in the afternoon of September 19, in the Peró neighborhood (Cabo Frio - RJ - one of the main tourist destinations in the state) with enumerators...

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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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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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São Paulo drives 0.68% increase in civil construction costs in July

The high of 0.68% in the costs of civil construction was the greatest since 2015 - Photo: Simone Mello/IBGE News Agency The National Index of Construction (Sinapi), released today by the IBGE, grew 0.68% in July, an increase of 0.33 percentage points over June (0.35%). This is the highest rate for July...

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Illiteracy decreases in 2017, but remains above 2015 target

The illiteracy rate of the population aged 15 and over in Brazil fell from 7.2% in 2016 to 7.0% in 2017, but did not reach the target of 6.5% set in 2015 by the National Education Plan (PNE). These data are part of the Education module of the National Household Sample Survey, released today by the IBGE....

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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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Publication updates the subclasses of the National Classification of Economic Activities

Last Friday (5), the IBGE published the National Classification of Economic Activities (CNAE) Subclasses version 2.3 for use in Public Administration records and registers. The update brings nine new subclasses, eliminates six others and changes the name of one, now comprising a total of 1,332 categories...

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IBGE depicts natural cover of Brazilian biomes from 2000 to 2018

Deforested area in the Amazon Biome, in the state of Rondônia - Photo: Fernando Peres Dias/IBGE Collection The Brazilian biomes lost nearly 500 thousand km² of natural cover: from 5.9 million km², in 2000, to 5.4km² in 2018. The greatest reduction of native area took place in the Amazon, which shrank...

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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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Trade loses 11% of its companies and 4.4% of the workers in five years

In 2019, retail employed 74.2% of the 10.2 million workers in commercial activities - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency Between 2010 and 2019, trade lost 177.3 thousand companies (-11%), 466.1 thousand workers (-4.4%) and 140.6 thousand shops (-8.1%). Retail, responsible for 74.2% of the persons...

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Industrial production down by 0.7% in February, following nine months of increase

Industrial production drops in 14 of the 26 subsectors surveyed - Photo: Camila Domingues/Piratini Palace National industrial production recorded a 0.7% decrease in February from the previous month, interrupting a sequence of nine months of increase. the sector is now 13.6% below the record level reached...

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Leveraged by supermarket sales, trade stays at 0.1%, records third positive month

Supermarket sales rose 0.6% in August, the fourth rise in a row - Photo: Eduardo Peret/IBGE News Agency Supermarkets and hypermarkets prevented negative retail sales in August. Volume of trade was 0.1% in August in relation to July, which indicated stability, though it was the third consecutive month...

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Services sector grows 10.9% in 2021 and overcomes 2020 losses

Transportation sector drives up services in 2021 - Photo: Rodrigo Felix/SEIL-PR The services sector grew 10.9% in 2021, after having dropped 7.8% in 2020. That was the biggest rate for the end of a year since the beginning of the time series in 2012. In the comparison between December and November, the...

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Civil construction cost increased by 0.30% in January

With a hike in January, construction costs hit R$ 1,162.24 by square meter Photo: Pixabay The National Index of Civil Construction (Sinapi), released today (07) by the IBGE, changed by 0.30% in January, being above the December 2019 rate (0.22%). The indicator measures the national cost of the construction...

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Industrial prices register highest drop since January 2014

Released today by the IBGE, the Producer Price Index - IPP fell 1.54% in November over October, the highest drop registered since the beginning of the time series in January 2014. Petroleum and alcohol products and other chemicals were the major sectors that pressed the index downward. The IPP stayed...

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Services sector generates more than 200 thousand jobs in 2019

Cargo transportation is the activity that generates more revenue in the services sector - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency The number of employed persons in the services sector increased 2.1% in 2019, totaling 12.8 million persons 269.9 thousand more persons than in 2018. Despite the increase of...

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São Paulo interrupts three months of drop in industrial production

After three drops in a row, the industrial sector in São Paulo registered a null change between September and October, indicating a gain in the output pace. According to the Monthly Industrial Survey Regional - PIM-PF, released today by the IBGE, this figure was one of the major influences over the increase...

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Costs in civil construction close year with a rise of 4.03%

Costs in the sector of civil construction increased 4.03% in 2019, a result below that in the previous year - Photo: Pixabay Released today (10) by the IBGE, the National Index of Civil Construction - Sinapi closed 2019 with a rise of 4.03%, standing 0.38 percentage points below the rate in 2018, which...