Regional Accounts 2015: GDP drop hits all Federation Units first time ever November 16, 2017

For the first time in the time series started in 2002, the GDP volume dropped in every Federation Unit in 2015. Mato Grosso do Sul (-0.3%), Roraima...

Vital Statistics: Registration of births records decrease (-5.1%) against the 2015 figure November 14, 2017

In 2016, a total 2,793,935 occurred and were registered in Brazil, having recorded decrease (-5.1%) in the comparison with 2015, when 2,945,344 births...

In September, retail sales grow 0.5% November 14, 2017

In September 2017, the national retail trade had an increase of 0.5 over the previous month, in the seasonally adjusted series, offsetting the decrease...

National Index of Civil Construction changes 0.16% in October November 10, 2017

The National Index of Civil Construction (Sinapi), registered a change of 0.16% in October, staying 0.11 percentage points below the 0.27% rate of...

IPCA stays at 0.42% in October November 10, 2017

The Extended National Consumer Price Index - IPCA stayed at 0.42% in October, 0.26 percentage points (p.p.) above the September figure (0.16%). The...

GDP falls 3.5% and reaches R$6 trillion November 09, 2017

The Gross Domestic Product - GDP reached R$5.996 trillion in 2015 and its drop in volume, compared with 2014, was revised from 3.8% to 3.5%. Services...

Stock of agricultural products totals 58.7 million metric tons in the first semester of 2017 November 09, 2017

The number of active establishments decreased 0.1%, moving from 7,829 in the second semester of 2016, to 7,821 in the first semester of 2017. The...

IBGE expects grain harvest to be 8.9% smaller in 2018 November 09, 2017

The first estimate for the 2018 harvest presents an output estimate of 206.5 million metric tons for cereals, legumes and oilseeds, 8.9% below the...

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Industry grows in 6 of the 14 places surveyed in September November 08, 2017

In the seasonally adjusted series, the growth in the pace of the industrial output in Brazil between August and September 2017 was followed by six...

2017 Census of Agriculture: more than one million agricultural establishments enumerated so far November 01, 2017

In the first month of collection, the 18 thousand enumerators hired by the IBGE to work in the 2017 Census of Agriculture have already visited more...

Industrial output changes 0.2% in September November 01, 2017

In September 2017, industrial output in the country recorded an increase of 0.2% against the August figure, in the seasonally adjusted series, after...

Continuous PNAD: unemployment rate is 12.4% in quarter ending in September October 31, 2017

The unemployment rate (12.4%) retreated 0.6 percentage points in the July-August-September 2017 quarter in relation to the April-May-June quarter...

Producer Price Index changes 1.50% in September October 26, 2017

The prices of the mining and manufacturing industries rose 1.50% in September 2017, above the level reported in August (0.29%). Nineteen out of the...

IPCA-15 reaches 0.34% in October October 20, 2017

The Extended National Consumer Price Index 15 (IPCA-15) was of 0.34% in October and stood 0.23 percentage points (p.p.) above September's rate (0.11%)....

Percentage of persons working in large-sized enterprises falls in 2016 October 18, 2017

Among 73.7 million employers, self-employed workers and employees – excluding those from the public sector and the domestic workers – in 2016, 26.0%...

Services Sector down 1.0% in August October 17, 2017

In August, the Services sector decreased 1.0% in relation to July, after the drop of 0.8% in July and a high of 1.3% in June, in the seasonally-adjusted...

Retail sales fall 0.5% between July and August October 11, 2017

In August 2017, the volume of sales of the national retail trade contracted 0.5%, whereas the nominal revenue had a change of -0.1%, both against...

Industry drops in 6 of 14 places surveyed in August October 10, 2017

While the national industrial output retreated 0.8% in the seasonally-adjusted series, six out of the 14 places surveyed registered negative rates...

In September, grain harvest expected to surpass 2016 figure by 30.3% October 10, 2017

Against the August figure (240.9 miillion metric tons), there was increase of 1.1 million metric tons (0.5%) and the aera increased by 143.6 thousand...

President of IBGE highlights partnerships during data collection of Census of Agriculture in Bahia October 09, 2017

"Knowledge is one of the biggest treasures of a country. Censuses are not expenditures, but rather an investment", stated Roberto Olinto Ramos, President...