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Services sector grows 0.8% in October December 12, 2019

In October 2019, the volume of service in Brazil had growth of 0.8% against September, in the...

Sales decelerate in October, yet trade has sixth positive month in a row December 11, 2019

According to the Monthly Survey of Trade, released today (11) by the IBGE, sales of the retail...

Retail sales change 0.1% in October December 11, 2019

In the seasonally-adjusted series, the retail sales changed 0.1% in October 2019 compared with the...

Grain harvest expected to hit record figure of 240.9 million metric tons in 2020 December 10, 2019

The national harvest of grains in 2020 is expected to hit the record of 240,913,898 metric tons,...

IBGE expects record grain harvest for 2020: 240.9 million metric tons December 10, 2019

In November, the second estimate for the 2020 harvest points to a record figure of 240.9 million...

São Paulo drives industrial production increase, but Goiás and Amazonas have the highest advances December 10, 2019

Seven of the 15 surveyed places showed growth in industrial production in October, compared to...

In October, industry grows in seven of the 15 places surveyed December 10, 2019

In October 2019, in the seasonally adjusted series, seven of the 15 surveyed locations showed...

Seminar shows how to overcome challenges of portraying indigenous peoples in Census December 09, 2019

To obtain an accurate picture of the situation of the indigenous peoples in a continental-size...

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

Twenty-year old Carmen Perez became the head of a farm in Barra do Garças, a municipality in the...

Inflation accelerates to 0.51% in November, highest rise for this month since 2015 December 06, 2019

As released by the IBGE today (6), the skyrocketing of the prices of meat made the Extended...

IPCA stayed at 0.51% in November December 06, 2019

The Extended National Consumer Price Index - IPCA changed 0.51% in November, whereas it had...

Civil construction costs grow 0.11% in November December 06, 2019

The National Index of Civil Construction (Sinap), released today by the IBGE, changed 0.11% in...

National Index of Civil Construction changes 0.11% in November December 06, 2019

The National Index of Civil Construction (Sinapi) changed 0.11% in November, a decrease of 0.08...

Cultural sector has average inflation of 3.5% in seven years, below the IPCA December 05, 2019

Culture-related prices recorded an average annual increase of 3.5%, below the official inflation,...

SIIC 2007-2018: cultural sector employed 5.2 million persons in 2018 and handled R$ 226 billion in the previous year December 05, 2019

The cultural sector employed, in 2018, more than 5 million persons, according to data from the...

Brazil has almost 40% of the population in municipalities without cinemas December 05, 2019

Going to the movies is still a very uncommon activity for many Brazilians. In 2018, 39.9% of the...

Budget for culture is reduced in all spheres of government in 2018 December 05, 2019

The public sector allocated R$ 9.1 billion for the culture sector in 2018, which is equivalent to...

Same-sex-marriages increase by 61.7% in a year marked by marital decline December 04, 2019

Same-sex marriages escalated in 2018 against the previous year. According to Vital Statistics...

More than 2/3 of delayed birth registrations are in the North and Northeast December 04, 2019

Nearly 68% of the children registered in 2018, but who were born before that year, are in the...

2018 Vital Statistics: same-sex marriages increase 61.7% whithin a year December 04, 2019

Despite the 1.6% reduction in the total civil marriages between 2017 and 2018 (1,070,376 to...

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