National Accounts

GDP has record drop of 9.7% in Q2, peak of social distancing September 01, 2020

The Brazilian Gross Domestic Product - GDP shrank 9.7% in the second quarter of 2020, compared with the previous quarter, peak of social distancing...

PNAD COVID19

After a period away due to the pandemic, 1.1 million persons go back to work in the first week of August August 28, 2020

About 1.1 million persons away from work due to social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic went back to work in the first week of August, in...

Continuous PNAD

Unemployment up in 11 states in Q2, but down in Amapá and Pará August 28, 2020

The unemployment rate in the second quarter increased in 11 states and remained stable in 14; only Amapá (-5.8%) and Pará (-1.6%) registered a decrease...

Annual Survey of Services

Services sectors is back to generating jobs in 2018, after three years shutting job positions August 27, 2020

The number of employed persons in the services sector increased in 2018, after three years in a row of decrease. That year, 12.6 million persons...

2020 Estimates

IBGE estimates Brazilian population at 211.8 million inhabitants August 27, 2020

According to the Population Estimates released today (27) by the IBGE for the 5,570 municipalities, Brazil reached 211.8 million inhabitants in 2020,...

Virtual Events

IBGE and INE: similar challenges and strategies to keep surveys going on during the pandemic August 26, 2020

The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) held, on Friday (8/21), a Special Webinar. At the invitation of the Directorate of Surveys,...

Union membership down to 11.2% in 2019, a drop led by the public sector August 26, 2020

Workers affiliated to unions were 1.2% of the employed population in the country, amounting to 10.6 million persons in 2019, with a decrease by 951...

IPCA-15

August inflation preview stands at 0.23 with high in fuel prices August 25, 2020

The Extended National Consumer Price Index 15 (IPCA-15), released today by the IBGE, stood at 0.23% in August. In the year, the IPCA-15 registered...

Post-graduation

Selecting online, ENCE enrolls for Master and PhD August 24, 2020

Due to the measures of social distancing to control the Covid-19 pandemic, the entire selection process will be online this year and there will be...

Virtual Events

IBGE, CFC to make national release on importance of enterprises and accountants answering structural surveys August 21, 2020

The IBGE met last Tuesday, 18, with the Federal Council of Accounting - CFC in order to make a joint effort to disseminate the importance of filling...

POF

Brazilians with lower income consume more rice and beans than processed food August 21, 2020

Rice, beans, French roll, cassava flour, corn and fresh fish are more present in households with lower income than in households with higher income....

POF

Consumption of saturated fat drops in 10 years, intake of sugar and salt still high August 21, 2020

The diet of Brazilians has changed in ten years, which managed to change the consumption profile of some nutrients. In this period, the intake of...

PNAD COVID19

13.3 million persons had been tested for Covid-19 by July August 20, 2020

About 13.3 million persons (6.3% of the population) had been tested for Covid-19 by July and a total 2.7 million (20.4%) tested positive for the...

CENSUS OF AGRICULTURE

IBGE includes meso-region and micro-region territorial divisions in 2017 Census of Agriculture data August 18, 2020

Data from the 2017 Census of Agriculture with territorial divisions of meso-regions and micro-regions were included in the IBGE System of Automatic...

Enterprise Pulse Survey

Four out of every 10 enterprises still undergo the negative effects of Covid-19 in the first half of July August 18, 2020

Of the 2.8 million enterprises operating in Brazil in the first half of July, 44.8% perceived a negative effect from Covid-19; 28.2%, reported a...

Evento Online

Seminar recalls 40 years of IPCA, discusses future of inflation measurement August 14, 2020

PNAD COVID19

Due to pandemic, 3 million persons got jobless in Brazil August 14, 2020

As shown in the weekly edition of PNAD COVID19, released today (14) by the IBGE, nearly three million persons got jobless due to the pandemic. The...

Livestock

Slaughter of hogs and pigs up in Q2 of 2020 reaching 12 million animals August 13, 2020

Livestock production in Brazil fell in the slaughter of cattle and chickens in the second quarter of 2020. Only the slaughter of hogs and pigs grew,...

PMS

After four months of decrease, services grow 5% in June August 13, 2020

The services sector advanced 5% from May to June and interrupted a sequence of negative rates in the previous four months, when it accumulated a...

Continuous PNAD - Tourism

Brazilians do not travel often, usually take trips by car and bus and stay with relatives or friends August 12, 2020

In about one out of every five households in the country, no resident took a trip in the months of April to August 2019. The reason reported by almost...