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Industry advances 2.9% in December over November, closes 2021 with a rise of 3.9%

Car sector rose 12.2% in December - Photo: Fernando Ogura/AEN-PR The industrial output grew 2.9% between November and December. In the previous month, the industry had registered a null change (0.0%), which interrupted five consecutive months of drops. As a result, the sector stands 0.9% below the level...

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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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In 2021, cattle herd hits record figure and reaches 224.6 million head

Cattle herd hit a record in 2021, and the municipality of São Félix do Xingu (PA) led the ranking - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency Cattle herd hits a record in 2021 and reaches 224.6 million head Cattle herd increased for the third consecutive year and reached the record figure in the time...

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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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Population increases, but number of persons under 30 falls by 5.4% from 2012 to 2021

Brazilian population increases by 7.6% in 10 years - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency Brazil’s population is older. Between 2012 and 2021, the number of persons under 30 years of age fell 5.4%, whereas all the groups above that age bracket recorded increase in the period. As a consequence, persons...

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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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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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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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Black and brown persons remain with less access to jobs, education, security and sanitation

In 2021, the informality rate among black (43.4%) and brown (47.0%) employed persons was higher than that of white persons (32.7%) - Picture: Eduardo Peret/IBGE News Agency Social inequalities due to color or race remain evident in the labor market. Unemployment, underutilization and informality continue...

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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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...

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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,...