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Unemployment rate drops to 6.6% and employed population hits new record

Number of workers in Trade hits new record, reaching 19.5 million. - Photo: Helena Pontes The unemployment rate fell to 6.6% in the quarter from June to August 2024, down 0.5 percentage points (pp) compared to the quarter from March to May 2024 (7.1%) and down 1.2 pp compared to the same moving quarter...

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Employment in industry rose 0.5% in June

In June of 2010, the total employed personnel in the industrial sector advanced 0.5% compared with the previous month, not considering the seasonal effects, the sixth consecutive positive result... In June of 2010, the total employed personnel in the industrial sector advanced 0.5% compared with the...

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IPCA-15 of November increased by 0.49%

The Extended National Consumer Price Index - 15 (IPCA-15) increased by 0.49% in November, a rate higher than the one registered in October (0.30%). With this result, the index accumulated in the year was 5.79%, above the same value of the previous year (3.64%). In the last 12 months the rate reached...

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Continuous PNAD 2018: 10% of population concentrate 43.1% of Brazilian wage bill

The Gini Index of the per capita household real monthly average earnings, which varies from zero (equality) to one (maximum inequality), was estimated at 0.545 in 2018. Between 2012 and 2015, the Gini Index tended to decrease (from 0.540 to 0.524), which was reversed from 2016 onwards, when the index...

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Quarterly Continuous PNAD: unemployment increases in 14 of the 27 Federation Units in Q1 2019

In Brazil, the unemployment rate of Q1 2019 was 12.7%, 1.1 percentage points above that of the previous quarter (11.6%) and 0.4 percentage points below Q1 2018 (13.1%). The biggest rates were observed in Amapá (20.2%), Bahia (18.3%) and Acre (18.0%), and the lowest, in Santa Catarina (7.2%), Rio Grande...

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PPM 2014: national cattle herd reaches 212.3 million head

After contracting 0.7% in 2012, cattle herds show a modest growth for the second year in a row (0.3%) in 2014. The inventory reached 212.3 million heads, an increase of 569 thousand animals in relation to 2013, when the growth fell 0.2%. As a result, Brazil remained in the second position in the world...

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Industrial output expands 0.7% in September

In September 2013, the national industrial output expanded 0.7% over the immediately previous month in the seasonally adjusted series, after registering a null change (0.0%) in August and a decline of 2.4% in July. Compared with the same month last year in the seasonally unadjusted series, the industry...

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Summary of Social Indicators: figures indicate increase of poverty between 2016 and 2017

The Summary of Social Indicators (SIS) analyzed the issue of poverty making use of different measurements that show its increase between 2016 and 2017. According to the World Bank Poverty Line (income of up to US$ 5.5 per day, or R$ 406 per month), poor people in Brazil made up 25.7% of the population...

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GDP srinks 3.6% in 2016 and closes the year at R$ 6.3 trillion

COMPARISON PERIOD INDICATORS GDP AGR IND SER GFCF FAM. CONS. GOV. CONS. Quarter / previous quarter (seasonally adjusted) -0.9 1.0 -0.7 -0.8 -1.6 -0.6 0.1 Quarter / same quarter a year ago (not seasonally adjusted) -2.5 -5.0 -2.4 -2.4 -5.4 -2.9 -0.1 Cumulative in 4 quarters / same period a year ago (not...

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Influenced by hypermarkets and supermarkets, retail sales fall 1.0% in June

The hypermarkets, supermarkets, food products, beverages and tobacco sector (-2.1%) contributed to the drop in retail sales in June - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency In June, retail sales in Brazil fell 1.0% compared to the previous month, when they grew 0.9%. In the first half of 2024, retail...

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Cattle slaughter grows 9.0% in relation to the same period of 2016 and 7.6% in relation to Q2

In the third quarter of 2017, cattle slaughter increased by 7.6% in the quarter (7.98 million head) and 9% in comparison with the same period of 2016. Slaughter of pigs and hogs also registered an increase in the quarter reaching 11.032 million head slaughtered, the best result for this period of the...

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Industrial output increases in 8 of 14 places surveyed in January

In the seasonally-adjusted series, the expansion registered in the national industrial output between December 2015 and January 2016 was followed by eight out of the 14 places surveyed, highlighted by the most intense advances recorded in Santa Catarina (3.7%) and Pará (3.3%). Considering these figures,...

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Industrial output falls -0.6% in May

Period Industrial Output May 2014 / April 2014 -0.6% May 2014 / May 2013 -3.2% Cumulative in 2014 -1.6% Cumulative in 12 months +0.2% Quarterly moving average -0.5% In the seasonally adjusted series, the industrial output declined 0.6% in May 2014 over the immediately previous month, registering the...

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IBGE innovates and launches Statistical Yearbook of Brazil as a website

Innovation at the IBGE is in tune with international trends. Therefore, in 2024, the Institute will make available the Statistical Yearbook of Brazil, in its new digital and interactive version, which will be launched on June 26, at Casa Brasil IBGE. For the first time in its long history, the Statistical...

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Industrial production falls in all the 14 areas surveyed in the first semester

The reduction of industrial activity at national level, in the end of the first semester of 2009 (-13.4%), affected the 14 areas surveyed by IBGE, among which there were five with decreases above the national average, when compared to results in the first six months of 2008.The major decrease occurred...

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Cattle slaughter increases 4.4% over Q1 2017

Cattle slaughter increased 4.4%, hogs and pigs slaughter rose 2.3% and chicken slaughter dropped 1.2% in the first quarter of 2018 over the first quarter of 2017. In the comparison between the first quarter of 2018 and the fourth quarter of 2017, cattle slaughter fell 4.2%, hogs and pigs slaughter dropped...

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IPCA-15 changed by 0.37% in November

The index is above the October figure (0.29%), mainly due to the rise of food prices. The IPCA-15 accumulated in the year is 2.60% and in the last twelve months, 2.99%. The hike in November is a consequence of the change in the prices of food products, which rose by 1.35%, significantly more than in...

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CEMPRE 2014: number of enterprises and other organizations drops 5.4%

In 2014, the IBGE´s Central Register of Enterprises – CEMPRE gathered 5.1 million enterprises and other formal organizations in operation, which represented a drop of 5.4% (less 288.9 thousand enterprises) in relation to 2013. This was the first drop in the number of enterprises and other organizations...

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Slaughter of animals and production of milk and eggs increased from 2005 to 2006

In 2006, the number of bovine animals slaughtered reached 30,2 million, representing an increase of 7.8% in relation to the previous year. In the period 2000-2006, the slaughter of animals in the country increased by 76.9%. Also in 2006 were slaughtered 25,5 million hogs and pigs and 3,9 billion chickens,...

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National Index of Civil Construction changed 0.74% in July

The National Index of Civil Construction (Sinapi), calculated by IBGE in partnership with CAIXA, changed 0.74% in July, increasing 0.08 percentage point in relation to the result of June (0.66%)... The National Index of Civil Construction (Sinapi), calculated by IBGE in partnership with Caixa Econômica...