PAS 2017: service sector has fewer enterprises, which employ fewer people and pay lower salaries August 28, 2019

In 2017, the services sector had 1,307 million enterprises; they employed 12,302 million persons...

One out of three Brazilians lives in 48 municipalites with more than 500 thousand inhabitants August 28, 2019

Nearly 66.5 million Brazilians (31.7%) live in the 48 municipalities with more than 500 thousand...

IBGE discloses municipal population estimates for 2019 August 28, 2019

The IBGE discloses today the estimates of the population living in the 5,570 Brazilian...

Event celebrates 80 years of IBGE Library August 27, 2019

Registrations open to ENCE's Doctoral, Master's and Specialization Programs August 26, 2019

Registrations to the National School of Statistical Sciences (ENCE) are open until October 4 for...

Registrations open to ENCE's postgraduate program August 26, 2019

The registration period for the selective process of the Postgraduate Program in Population,...

ENCE enrolls for Specialization in Environmental Analysis and Territory Management August 26, 2019

The National School of Statistical Sciences - ENCE opens enrollment for the selection process of...

Data collection of National Survey of Health starts today August 26, 2019

Along the next five months, the IBGE will visit more than 100 thousand households in the entire...

IBGE kicks off National Survey of Health - PNS 2019 August 26, 2019

Starting on Monday, August 26, nearly 1,500 IBGE´s survey agents will visit 108 thousand...

IBGE and World Bank carry out workshop on administrative records in Brasília August 23, 2019

The event will be held on August 27 and 28 in the Serzedello Corrêa Institute, and will be open to...

Inflation forecast in August stays at 0.08%, the lowest index for the month since 2010 August 22, 2019

  The Extended National Consumer Price Index 15 (IPCA-15) rose 0.08% in August, close to July's...

In August, IPCA-15 was of 0.08% August 22, 2019

The Extended National Consumer Price Index 15 (IPCA-15) changed 0.08% in August, close to the...

Selection process for census analysts has 25,787 enrolled August 21, 2019

Today, August 21, 25,787 enrollments were registered for 400 temporary jobs of the IBGE´s...

Labor market reflects gender inequalities August 19, 2019

Almost the entire Brazilian female population (92.6%) aged 14 years old and over, representing...

Map of Geographic Indications 2019 brings four new products August 19, 2019

The IBGE releases today the 2019 version of the Map of Geographical Indications in Brazil, result...

One out of every four unemployed workers has been looking for a job for at least 2 years August 15, 2019

More than one-fourth (26.2%) of the unemployed persons in Brazil have been looking for a job for...

Quarterly Continuous PNAD: unemployment decreases in 10 of the 27 Federation Units in Q2 2019 August 15, 2019

The unemployment rate in the country in Q2 2019 was 12.0%, having fallen in both comparisons: -0.7...

Cattle slaughter increases, reaches 8 million head in Q2 August 14, 2019

Cattle slaughter reached 8.08 million head in the second quarter of the year, an increase of 2.4%...

Quarterly livestock surveys – first results: cattle, pigs and hogs, and chicken slaughter rise in annual comparison August 14, 2019

Cattle slaughter rose 4.1%, pigs and hogs slaughter increased 5.1% and that of chicken rose 3.6%...

Art in maps shows transformations from colonial Brazil up to the present August 12, 2019

Far beyond representation, maps from the colonial period of Brazil display information about...