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Industry inflation accelerates in May due to rise of food prices July 01, 2020

Industry prices rose 1.22% in May against the previous month, the highest figure since May 2019,...

Producer Price Index (IPP) changes by 1.22% in May July 01, 2020

In May 2020, industry prices rose 1.22% against the April 2020 figure. The cumulative index in the...

For the first time ever, less than half persons at working age is employed June 30, 2020

The percentage of employed persons in the population at working age reached 49.5% in the quarter...

Continuous PNAD: unemployment rate is 12.9% and underutilization rate is 27.5% in quarter ending in May 2020 June 30, 2020

The unemployment rate (12.9%) in the moving quarter ended in May 2020 increased 1.2 percentage...

Endorsed by scientific community, IBGE coordinates Brazilian relief standardization June 29, 2020

In an attempt to uniformize the several ways in which the Brazilian relief has been represented,...

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

The IBGE´s Monthly PNAD COVID19 unveils that, of the 68 million existing households in Brazil,...

IBGE updates Map of the Legal Amazon June 29, 2020

The IBGE releases, today, Legal Amazon Boundaries for 2019, based on the update of the region's...

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

The number of people with flu-like symptoms who sought medical assistance at health facilities in...

2.8 million persons with flu-like symptoms sought health care between May 31 and June 6 June 26, 2020

This amount decreased in relation to the previous week (3.6 million) and over the first week of...

Supermarkets lead revenue and employment generation ranking in 2018 June 26, 2020

The sector of hyper and supermarkets generated most jobs in 2018 and employed 45.7 thousand...

PAC 2018: Brazil has 1.5 million trade companies generating a total net revenue of R$ 3.7 trillion June 26, 2020

Between 2009 and 2018, the number of employed persons in trade companies increased by 19.7%,...

Number of enterprises and other organizations hits lowest level in 9 years June 25, 2020

The number of enterprises and other formal organizations in operation in Brazil retreated 1.8%...

Campinas, Florianópolis and Vitória are the New Brazilian Metropolises June 25, 2020

Between 2008 and 2018, Brazil had three new metropolises and 32 cities made into regional capitals in 12...

REGIC 2018: Campinas/SP, Florianópolis/SC and Vitória/ES are now among the 15 Metropolises of the Country June 25, 2020

Campinas/SP, Florianópolis/SC and Vitória/ES are now counted among the current 15 Metropolises....

CEMPRE 2018: Number of enterprises and other organizations retreats 1.8%, larger enterprises increase 1.1% June 25, 2020

In 2018, the number of enterprises and other active formal organizations retreated 1.8% over 2017, which...

Students from some municipalities endure a commute of almost 100 km to attend college June 25, 2020

Brazilians enrolled in higher-education courses out of their municipality of origin endure an...

Due to reduced airfare prices, inflation preview hits lowest result in June since 2006 June 25, 2020

Affected by the result of airfare prices (-26,08%), June's inflation preview was of 0.02%, the...

IPCA-15 changes by 0.02% in June June 25, 2020

The Extended National Consumer Price Index 15 (IPCA-15) changed by 0.02% in June, after having...

Pandemic leaves 9.7 million workers unpaid in May June 24, 2020

The social distancing due to the Covid-19 pandemic left 9.7 million workers unpaid in May 2020....

PNAD COVID19 - monthly edition: 9.7 million workers without salary in May June 24, 2020

Of the 84.4 million workers in the country, around 19.0 million were away from their duties and,...

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