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Ten years of first olive oil extraction in Brazil
In 2018, Brazil celebrates ten years of the first extraction of extra-virgin olive oil, occurred in Maria da Fé (MG), a pioneer municipality in the country. Since then, olive crops have become increasingly common landscapes in the country, which is one of the largest importers of oil. From 2008 to 2016,...
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Medicines and health insurance have an impact on inflation in April
Inflation recorded an increase of 0.22% in April, due to the rise of prices of pharmaceuticals and health insurance. The Extended National COnsumer Price Index (IPCA), released today by the IBGE, show the rate is 0.13 percentage points bigger than in March (0.09%). The cumulative index in the year was...
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Informality boosts employment's high of 1.5% in quarter ended in September
Driven by informal work, the employed population increased by 1.5% (1.3 million more persons) in the quarter closed in September, leading the unemployment rate to 11.9%, against 12.4% in the previous period. The total employed population in the period reached 92.6 million. The number of unemployed, in...
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Households spend 36% more with health per person than government
The per capita expenditure of households and non-profit institutions with health goods and services was of R$1,538.79 in 2015, 36% higher than the per capita expenditure of government, which was of R$1,131.94. This information is from the Health Satellite Account 2010-2015, released today by the IBGE....
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SDG #5: Reach gender equality, empower all women and girls
The fourth edition of the Retratos Magazine launches a series of interviews with IBGE technicians in charge of coordinating each one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals - SDGs. Below you can find the full interview with Bárbara Cobo Soares, PhD in Economics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro...
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Elderly sport willingness to work and contribute to Census of Agriculture
Those who think that the elderly are meant to get out of the labor market and stay home are wrong. In the 2017 Census of Agriculture, which will be on the field until February, the elderly take part both as rural producers and census takers. Of the 20,803 enumerators working in the Census, 222 are aged...
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Census of Agriculture advances through agricultural frontier and shows rural Maranhão
In operation since October, the Census of Agriculture unveils the regional diversity inasmuch as the enumerators advance in their work. The IBGE News Agency traveled to Maranhão to visit the municipalities of Presidente Dutra, São João dos Patos, Balsas and Riachão to check the data collection and the...
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Know stories and motivations behind the work of flower growers
Laerte Correia among his flowers in Ivoti, Rio Grande do Sul - Photo: Satoshi Suzuki Agronomist Laerte Correia began to produce flowers when he was 56 years old in 2007, after years providing technical assistance to producers in the municipality of Ivoti, Rio Grande do Sul, a region traditionally associated...
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10.3 million persons live in households with severe food insecurity
More than half of households with severe food insecurity were headed by women - Photo: Tony Winston/Agência Brasília Severe food insecurity was present in the home of 10.3 million Brazilians at least for some time between 2017 and 2018. Of the 68.9 million households in the country, 36.7% had some level...
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In São Francisco Valley, Census of Agriculture harvests data from fruits that win the world
Forget that only cactuses exist in the Sertão, and that people and animals suffer from water shortage. The picture is completely different in the São Francisco Valley, a region around this river in the states of Pernambuco, Bahia and Minas Gerais, a hub of irrigated fruitculture in Brazil. In the field...
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2022 - Metropolitan Geographies and Urban Clusters
The current revision of the IBGE shows the creation of a new Metropolitan Area in the State of Piauí and the adjustment of the Metropolitan Areas in the State of Alagoas. According to State Complementary Law no. 264/2022, the Metropolitan Area of Parnaíba was created in Piauí. In the State of Alagoas,...
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Output of acai berry amounted to 1.1 million metric tons in 2016
According to the Municipal Agricultural Survey (PAM), released today, from 2015 to 2016 the national output of acai berry increased from 1.0 to 1.1 million metric tons. The IBGE is now investigating acai crops in an agricultural survey for the first time. Results show that Pará was the main producer...
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"O IBGE mais perto de você" on display in National Congress
The "O IBGE mais perto de você" (The IBGE closer to you) exhibition can be visited since last Wednesday, April 4, at the Black Hall of the National Congress in Brasília (DF). Until April 22, 8.5 million km² of the Brazilian territory are under the feet of visitors in an interactive map on land use an...
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Blue November promotes prevention of prostate cancer
Of all types of cancer, prostate cancer is the most frequent (36.9%) among men aged 18 years and over who discovered it in the first diagnosis, according to the National Survey of Health 2013 - PNS, released by the IBGE. Data from the Ministry of Health show that 14,484 men died from this disease in...
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Goat and sheep farming stands out in Ceará
The sertão (*) of Ceará produces much more than one can find at first. The state has gained prominence in livestock, mainly in goat and sheep farming. According to data from the IBGE's Municipal Livestock Production (PPM), Ceará had, in 2016, the fourth biggest herd of goats in the country: 1.13 million...
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Digital TV advances, but subscription channels are still seen as expensive
The survey shows the proportion of housing units with a digital TV signal reached 86.6% in 2018 - Photo: Piqsels The use of television by the Brazilian population has been going through changes and income has had a direct impact on people's consumption habits. Tube television sets have been increasingly...
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From a family establishment of tomato farming in a rural area of a small town to a big cattle raising farm: nothing escapes the Census of Agriculture. The reality of the countryside is portrayed by the survey that goes on 100 years old this Tuesday (Sept 1). The Census of Agriculture is the main and...
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Budget for culture is reduced in all spheres of government in 2018
Ancine holds 35.4% of the federal budget for culture - Photo: Simone Mello/IBGE News Agency The public sector allocated R$ 9.1 billion for the culture sector in 2018, which is equivalent to 0.21% of the total consolidated expenses of the public administration. Despite the increase of expenditure, all...
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In 2017, IBGE invests in technology and communication to get closer to society
Fulfilling the institutional mission of portraying Brazil, the IBGE produced and released more than 200 statistical and geoscientific products in 2017, always pursuing the excellence in the methods and procedures for data collection, processing, storage and dissemination of statistical data. Grounded...
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IBGE presents the colors of inequality
Color or race statistics produced by the IBGE show that Brazil is still far from becoming a racial democracy. On the average, white persons have the highest salaries, face less unemployment and are the majority among higher-education students, for example. Socioeconomic indicators for the black and brown...