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Cattle slaughter grows by 4.6% between second and third quarters December 17, 2009

According to IBGE’s Statistics of Livestock Production, in the third quarter of 2009 there was an increase of +4.6% in the number of slaughtered...

Public administration is responsible for more than a third of economy in almost 34% of Brazilian municipalities December 16, 2009

In 2007, among the 5,564 municipalities of the country, São Paulo (SP), Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brasília (DF), Belo Horizonte (MG) and Curitiba...

In October, trade sales increased 1.4% and nominal revenue, 1.8% December 15, 2009

RESULTS BY SUBSECTOR The subsector of Hypermarkets, supermarkets, food products, beverages and tobacco, with change of 12.2% in volume...

From 2005 to 2008, access to Internet increased 75.3% and over half of Brazilians managed to have a cell phone December 11, 2009

In three years, the percentage of persons aged 10 years and over who accessed the Internet at least once from a computer increased 75.3%, having...

GDP increases by 1.3% in relation to the second quarter and reaches R$ 797 billion December 10, 2009

In the third quarter of 2009, GDP at market prices grew by 1.3% in relation to the second quarter of this year, in the seasonally adjusted series....

Health-related activities consumed 8.4% of GDP in 2007 December 09, 2009

The revenue (value added) generated by health-related activities increased 8.9%, between 2005 and 2007 in Brazil. The level of participation...

IPCA of November was 0.41% December 09, 2009

In September, industrial production in Brazil increased 0.8% compared to the result in the previous month, remaining in a sequence of nine months...

National Index of Civil Construction changes by 0.33% in November December 09, 2009

The National Index of Civil Construction (Sinapi), calculated by IBGE in partnership with Caixa Econômica Federal, recorded a variation of 0.33%...

Industrial employment increases 0.7% in October December 08, 2009

NUMBER OF HOUR PAID In October, there was continuous increase of the number of hour paid in production, compared to the previous month, in...

IBGE estimates grain harvest 8.1% inferior to record harvest of 2008 December 08, 2009

For the 2010 harvest, estimated production is 140.4 million tons, 4.7% larger than that obtained in 2009, and the estimated area to be harvested...

Industrial production increases in 10 of the 14 surveyed places, in October December 04, 2009

In October, seasonally adjusted regional indexes of industrial production increased, in comparison to September, in 10 of the 14 surveyed places....

Industrial production increases by 2.2% from September to October December 02, 2009

In October 2009, industrial production increased by 2.2% in comparison with the previous month, in the seasonally-adjusted series. By comparison...

In 2008, life expectancy of Brazilians reached 72.86 years of age December 01, 2009

Life expectancy at birth of the population, both sexes, in Brazil changed from 69.66 years (69 years, 7 months and 29 days) to 72.86 years (72...

17.2% of Brazilians smoke; 52.1% of them think of quitting November 27, 2009

Around 24.6 million Brazilians aged 15 and over smoked tobacco products in 2008, what corresponded to 17.2% of the population in this age group....

IPCA-15 of November is 0.44% November 26, 2009

The result was higher than the index of October (0.18%), accumulating 3.79% in the year and 4.09% in the last 12 months. The Extended National...

In October, unemployment was 7.5% November 26, 2009

In October 2009, IBGE’s Monthly Employment Survey (PME) estimated unemployment rate1 as 7.%, for the group of six metropolitan areas (São Paulo,...

Number of children with birth certificates increases ten years after registration became free November 25, 2009

In ten years, the percentage of under-registration of births1 decreased from 27.1%in 1998 to 8.9% in 2008: in each 100 births around 27 children...

Extraction of wood decreases by 5.04% between 2007 and 2008 November 19, 2009

The value of production silviculture1 and extractive agriculture2 has amounted to R$ 12.7 billion in 2008. The percent participation of silviculture...

Total cattle herd increases after two years of reduction November 19, 2009

The total cattle herd in 2008 was 202.287 million heads, the first positive result after two years of successive herd reductions (2006 and 2007)...

IBGE releases Regional Accounts 2007 November 18, 2009

Since 1995, eight states (SP, RJ, MG, RS, PR, BA, SC and DF) have maintained leadership in the participation in the gross domestic product (GDP)...

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