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Across the street another country: the 2022 Census on the Brazil-Uruguay border 19/12/2022

The flags fluttering side by side indicate: half of the park is Brazilian, half, Uruguayan. It is through the International Park shared by the sister...

Copan: enumeration in the largest residential building in Latin America 28/11/2022

“Something happens to my heart. Whenever I am at the corner of Ipiranga and São joão Avenue...”. The classic lyrics of “Sampa”, a song by Caetano...

In Nova Iguaçu: 2022 Census reaches rural Rio de Janeiro 14/11/2022

It was not before a week of heavy rain and mud, at the beginning of October, that the IBGE News Agency reporting team could follow the census operation...

Careiro da Várzea: the Census in riverside communities in Amazonas 31/10/2022

Living in the municipality of Careiro da Várzea, in Amazonas, means facing the river floods and drought every year. Also, almost all the housing...

In five states: international observers watch data collection and learn about 2022 Census 17/10/2022

As the 2022 Census collection went on, in the afternoon of September 19, in the Peró neighborhood (Cabo Frio - RJ - one of the main tourist destinations...

At the Saint Benedict’s Monastery: enumeration in a collective household 03/10/2022

At 7:15 in the morning, monks living in the Saint Benedict’s Monatery, downtown Rio, started to sing Gregorian chant for the morning Mass. When the...

Sertão of Sergipe: Census in artisanal fishing communities of "Velho Chico" 12/09/2022

The Census team in the IBGE state branch in Sergipe visited, on August 18, the Lagoa Primeira community, in the municipality of Gararu, state of...

Quilombo Maria Joaquina takes part in mobilization day for unprecedented census in Brazil 05/09/2022

“Negro entoou/ Um canto de revolta pelos ares/ No Quilombo dos Palmares/ Onde se refugiou” (A black man sang/ a revolt song out loud/ At Palmares...

In forests, in fields, in cities: time to portray the Indigenous population 29/08/2022

“I believe that the IBGE comes to show our reality, the expansion of our community and the future we want for it.” That was the expectation of chief...

First edition of Semiannual Survey of Innovation ends data collection in September 06/09/2022

Enterprises of the industrial sector have up to September 30 to answer to the first edition of the Semiannual Innovation Survey (PINTEC), carried...

Study defines Brazilian students' health conditions and habits 08/04/2019

Non-communicable chronic degenerative diseases, which are responsible for 72% of deaths in the world, according to the World Health Organization...

Survey reveals regional diversity in Brazilian food intake 08/05/2018

House by house, street by street, the IBGE's Consumer Expenditure Survey (POF) provides a daily x-ray of Brazilians, showing their living conditions,...

IBGE drills down consumption and life condition of population 19/03/2018

In order to drill down into consumption, feeding and life quality of Brazilians, the Consumer Expenditure Survey - POF started in June last year...

IBGE is carrying out survey on tourism 23/08/2021

In partnership with the Ministry of Tourism, the IBGE is carrying out a Continuous National Household Sample Survey since January, raising information...

IBGE concludes data collection of PNS, forecasts new surveys in health area 13/03/2020

The IBGE closed on Friday, 13, the data collection of the National Survey of Health - PNS, started on August 26 last year. In order to portray the...

Continuous PNAD examines population's habits in tourism for the first time 08/07/2019

The Continuous National Household Sample Survey (Continuous PNAD) is going into the field today (8) in order to collect data on the population's...

Survey follows up supply and quality of basic sanitation services in Brazil 06/02/2019

Carried out by the IBGE, the fourth edition of the National Survey of Basic Sanitation - PNSB is in the field in the 5,570 Brazilian municipalities...

28.6 million persons tested for Covid-19 until November 23/12/2020

The number of persons who made some test to diagnose Covid-19 was 28.6 million until November. Of this total, nearly 6.5 million tested positive...

Unemployment hits 14 million people in fourth week of September 16/10/2020

According to PNAD COVID19, released today (16) by the IBGE, the number of unemployed persons hit 14 million in the fourth week of September, remaining...

Number of strictly isolated people in the pandemic drops to 33.8 million 09/10/2020

The number of people under strict isolation to reduce the spread of the coronavirus fell by 1.6 million between the second and third weeks of September,...

Two million interrupt strict social isolation in second week of September 02/10/2020

The number of persons strictly isolated as a containment measure against the Covid-19 pandemic dropped by nearly 2 million between the first and...

Enterprises report to be less affected by Covid effects in 2nd half of August 01/10/2020

In the second half of August, of the 3.4 million enterprises in operation, 33.5% perceived negative impacts caused by the pandemic on their activities....

5.9 milion did not follow social distancing measures in the first week of September 25/09/2020

The number of people who did not take any restrictive measures to avoid being infected by the novel coronavirus rose to 5.9 million in the first...

A total 17.9 million persons had been tested for Covid-19 by August 23/09/2020

The number of persons tested for Covid-19 increased by 34.4% in August against the previous month, and reached 17.9% million persons, a total 8.5%...

IBGE launches interactive dashboard to help municipalities fight the pandemic 21/09/2020

The IBGE launches today (21) the Covid-19 Dashboard by Municipality, with interactive maps that enable users to select a locality and have an overall...

Unemployment in the pandemic reaches highest level in the fourth week of August 18/09/2020

Unemployment rate hit 14.3% in the fourth week of August, an increase of 1.1 percentage points from the previous week (13.2%). As a result, the rate...

Four of every 10 enterprises still feel negative effects of the Covid-19 pandemic in the first week of August 15/09/2020

Among the 3.2 million enterprises in operation in the first half of August, 38.6% still report negative effects of the pandemic on their activities....

Decrease in the number of persons who would like to work but did not go job searching in the second week of August 04/09/2020

The number of persons who would like to work but did not look for a job decreased by one million, from 28.1 million to 27.1 million. This group also...

Six out of ten enterprises rank effects of Covid-19 as small, null or positive in the second half of July 02/09/2020

A total 37.5% of the 3 million enterprises in operation in the second half of July reported negative effects of the novel coronavirus crisis on their...

After a period away due to the pandemic, 1.1 million persons go back to work in the first week of August 28/08/2020

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...

Number of persons away from work due to the pandemic falls to 6.2 million in the 3rd week of July 07/08/2020

The number of persons temporarily away from work due to social distancing fell for the eighth week in a row, with a change from 7 million in the...

Remote work falls for the first time with relaxation of social distancing 31/07/2020

In the second week of July, the group of persons that was temporarily away from work due to social distancing remained dropping, 1.2 million less...

Distribuition of emergency aid reaches 29.4 million households in June 23/07/2020

About 29.4 million households in Brazil (43% of the total) received, in June, some pandemic-related emergency aid, which is intended to guarantee...

Unemployment rises to 13.1%, hits 12.4 million in 4th week of June 17/07/2020

The unemployment rate increased to 13.1% in the fourth week of June over the previous week. It corresponds to 12.4 million unemployed persons. This...

Pandemic was responsible for closure of 4 out of every 10 enterprises 16/07/2020

Among the 1.3 million enterprises that had stopped their activities temporarily or permanently in the first half of June, 39.4% reported as a main...

More than one million persons could have returned to work in the 2nd week of June 03/07/2020

The number of employed persons who were temporarily away from work due to social distancing fell from 13.5 million in the first week of June to 12.4...

More than 76% of resources of Emergency Aid reached the lowest income strata in May 29/06/2020

The IBGE´s Monthly PNAD COVID19 unveils that, of the 68 million existing households in Brazil, 38.7% (26.3 million households) benefited from the...

Survey shows how people used to move around to go shopping before the pandemic 21/05/2020

The IBGE releases today (21) the survey Areas of Influence of Cities (Regic) 2018 – Information on Trade flows, with preliminary data, analyzes and...

Nearly two thirds of slums are less than 2 kilometers from hospitals 19/05/2020

Brazil has nearly two thirds (64.93%) of the subnormal agglomerates located less than two kilometers of distance from hospitals. Most of these localities...

IBGE releases information on the distribution of doctors, nurses, ICUs and mechanical ventilators in Brazil 07/05/2020

The IBGE released, today (7), information on the distribution of doctors, nurses, ICU (intensive care unit) beds and mechanical ventilators by Federation...

Against Covid-19, IBGE anticipates data on Indigenous Peoples and Quilombolas 24/04/2020

The IBGE estimates that in Brazil there are 7,103 Indigenous localities and 5,972 Quilombolas localities in 2019, according to the Geographic and...

Number of people tested for Covid-19 rises to 25.7 million by October 01/12/2020

The number of people who got tested for Covid-19 rose to 25.7 million in October. Of this total, about 5.7 million tested positive for the disease,...

10.4% of population were tested for Covid-19 until September in Brazil 23/10/2020

The number of persons who were tested to diagnose Covid-19 reached 21.9 million in September, the equivalent to 10.4% of the Brazilian population....

In the middle of the pandemic, number of persons in strict isolation falls 11/09/2020

The number of strictly isolated persons decreased by 2.8 million from the second to the third week of August, from 44.4 to 41.6 million, according...

Four out of every 10 enterprises still undergo the negative effects of Covid-19 in the first half of July 18/08/2020

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...

Two million less are away from work due to pandemic in the first week of July 24/07/2020

The number of employed people away from work due to social distancing kept the downward trend seen since the beginning of the reopening process. ...

More than 1.3 million persons return to work in the 3rd week of June 10/07/2020

The number of employed persons who were temporarily away from work due to social distancing remained falling in the third week of June, from 12.4...

New survey follows up impact of Covid-19 pandemic on enterprises 09/07/2020

The IBGE will release on Thursday (16) the first results of the Enterprise Pulse Survey: Impact of Covid-19 on the Enterprises, which will follow...

Number of people with flu-like symptoms who sought health care in the first week of June falls 26/06/2020

The number of people with flu-like symptoms who sought medical assistance at health facilities in the first week of June fell to 2.8 million. This...

Pandemic leaves 9.7 million workers unpaid in May 24/06/2020

The social distancing due to the Covid-19 pandemic left 9.7 million workers unpaid in May 2020. This corresponds to more than half (51.3%) of the...

Pandemic hinders access of 28.6 million people to the labor market in May 16/06/2020

About 17.7 million persons were unable to look for a job in the last week of May due to the Covid-19 pandemic or because of the lack of opportunity...

IBGE inaugurates telephone collection of PNAD Covid covering more than 190 thousand households 04/05/2020

The PNAD Covid telephone collection has begun this Monday (4). It is a version of the Continuous National Household Sample Survey, in partnership...

Well-known for the production of crustaceans, Sergipe shows its agricultural diversity 31/01/2020

Although Sergipe is the smallest state in Brazil, its agricultural production stands out nationwide. Besides being the second major producer of mangaba ( is...

Know stories and motivations behind the work of flower growers 24/01/2020

Agronomist Laerte Correia began to produce flowers when he was 56 years old in 2007, after years providing technical assistance to producers in the...

Number of establishments using irrigated agriculture increases more than 50% in 11 years 17/01/2020

One of the most relevant processes for the development of agricultural production, irrigation has gained relevance in Brazilian agriculture. According...

Water sets the pace of agriculture in Amazonas 10/01/2020

In a village full of farmers located in the Terra Nova district, municipality of Careiro da Várzea (AM), people live willing to face difficulties...

In Bahia, descendants of Japanese invest in cocoa 27/12/2019

Last December 18 was the International Migrants Day. In Brazil, the presence of migrants from several countries brought significant contributions...

In Bahia, sons of Japanese invest in cocoa 27/12/2019

Last December 18 was the International Migrants Day. In Brazil, the presence of migrants from several countries brought significant contributions...

Milk productivity increases 62% in 11 years, reaches 30 billion liters 20/12/2019

The production of cow milk surpassed the milestone of 30 billion liters for the first time ever in the history of the Census of Agriculture. The...

Beekeepers are nearly one-fourth of landless producers in Minas Gerais 13/12/2019

Of the more than 5 million agricultural establishments surveyed in the 2017 Census of Agriculture, nearly 1.5% had landless producers, those without...

Women gain space in agriculture, yet they are only 19% of producers 06/12/2019

Twenty-year old Carmen Perez became the head of a farm in Barra do Garças, a municipality in the interior of Mato Grosso. Raised in São Paulo, Perez...

Blacks and browns are the minority heading large agricultural establishments 29/11/2019

For the first time, the Census of Agriculture investigated the color or race of the country’s more than 5 million farmers. In 2017, 52.8% were blacks...

Labor market challenges fuel debate on rights 06/12/2018

One of the most important topics of the Federal Constitution which became 30 years old in 2018, the right to quality jobs is addressed in several...

Uncertainty about food decreases, but quality is still an issue 13/11/2018

Although it was added belatedly to the 1988 Constitution, the right to food is also part of the list of social rights guaranteed by the text, which...

Social protetction grows, but faces challenges of future funding 06/11/2018

Thirty years after the adoption of the 1988 Federal Constitution, the advances in social protection in Brazil are undeniable, but social security...

Insecurity increases, limits rights and threatens freedom in the country 29/06/2018

Security, one of the rights guaranteed in the 1988 Federal Constitution, is a fundamental necessity of life in society and the feeling that we lack...

Health advances, but remains far from the 1988 plans 29/05/2018

The 82nd anniversary of the IBGE is not the only important date celebrated by the Brazilian society in 2018: 30 years ago was promulgated the Federal...

Figures fall, though child labor is still reality in Brazil 26/11/2018

One of the social rights assured in the Federal Constitution, the protection of childhood arrives at the 30th anniversary of the Magna Carta with...

Access to urban services not following advance of public policies of housing 21/11/2018

Appropriate house for every Brazilian was the motivation that caused this right to be included in the Federal Constitution of 1988, which celebrated...

Access to education is still not equal 29/10/2018

Besides being the election month, October 2018 marks the 30th anniversary of our Federal Institution, which was celebrated on the 5th. Because of...

Census of Agriculture goes to distant communities, spotlights Indian peoples 26/02/2018

The Census of Agriculture 2017 goes beyond traditional farms and latifundia In addition to usual agricultural producers, the survey also visits Indian...

Census of Agriculture collects data from quilombola communities in Rio de Janeiro 19/02/2018

The data collection team in charge of the Census of Agriculture in Rio de Janeiro visited, between January 18 and February 2, several quilombola...

Census of Agriculture enumerates more than 4 million properties and enters its final month 05/02/2018

With the beginning of February, the 2017 Census of Agriculture starts its last month of data collection in Brazil. Before even ending, the collection...

Elderly sport willingness to work and contribute to Census of Agriculture 29/01/2018

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...

Typical of Santa Catarina, shellfishes for first time in Census of Agriculture 22/01/2018

Shellfish growing and poultry farming are among the most important economic activities in Santa Catarina. The national production of oysters, mussels...

Census of Agriculture advances through agricultural frontier and shows rural Maranhão 08/01/2018

In operation since October, the Census of Agriculture unveils the regional diversity inasmuch as the enumerators advance in their work. The IBGE...

From mountain ranges to pampas, Rio Grande do Sul features diversity in Census of Agriculture 18/12/2017

The agricultural diversity in Rio Grande do Sul poses the major challenge for the Census of Agriculture 2017, which is now in the third month with...

In São Francisco Valley, Census of Agriculture harvests data from fruits that win the world 11/12/2017

Forget that only cactuses exist in the Sertão, and that people and animals suffer from water shortage. The picture is completely different in the...

From cacao to cassava: drought leaves a trace in the Census of Agriculture in Bahia 27/11/2017

On muddy and bumpy roads, crossed by cows, some distrustful respondents and angry dogs, census takers of the Census of Agriculture 2017 break into...

Paraná, our biggest producer of beans, takes part in the 2017 Census of Agriculture 21/11/2017

Rural producer Felipe Kampa, age 33 has a diversified production in the 220 bushels (about 5.3 km²) of his property, located in the municipality...

Census of Agriculture: Marajo Island is the home of most buffaloes in the country 13/11/2017

Agricultural production is extremely important in the generation of labor and income in Pará, where about 230 thousand establishments in 144 thousand...

Series "Census of Agriculture in the field" shows the diversity of rural Brazil 10/11/2017

More than counting numbers, the Census of Agriculture 2017 wants to paint an accurate portrait of rural Brazil. In order to reveal a little more...