Women's Month

Difference decreases in seven years, but women still earn 20.5% less than men March 08, 2019

Despite a slight decrease in salary inequalities between 2012 and 2018, women still ear, on average, 20.5% less than men in Brazil, according to...

Continuous PNAD

Inland areas of Brazil have lower unemployment, but experience more underemployment March 07, 2019

Unemployment was smaller in the inland areas of states, according to data relative to Q3 2018 from the Continuous National Household Sample Survey...

Continuous PNAD

Unemployment increases and hits 12.7 million persons after decreasing for two quarters February 27, 2019

After decreasing two times in a row, the unemployment rate recorded an increase and stayed at 12% in the moving quarter ended January, above the...

PNAD Contínua

Highest unemployment in 13 capitals in Brazil over last 7 years February 22, 2019

The average unemployment rate in 2018 was the highest of the last seven years in 13 capitals of Brazil, in the opposite direction of the national...

Continuous PNAD

Unemployment falls to 12.3% in the year with a record of persons in informality January 31, 2019

The average unemployment rate in Brazil fell from 12.7% in 2017 to 12.3% in 2018, offsetting the trend observed since 2015, according to the Continuous...

PNAD Contínua

Unemployment drops to 11.6%, informality hits record level December 28, 2018

The unemployment rate dropped to 11.6% in the quarter ended in November. The Continuous PNAD, released today by the IBGE, estimated an increase of...

Continuous PNAD

Smart TVs grow, but 11.9 million Bazilians still depend on analog signal December 20, 2018

At times of technology transition, Brazil has two distinct realities: in 2017, 20.6 million persons aged 10 or older accessed the Internet through...

Summary of Social Indicators

Poverty grows and poor population in 2017 amounts to 54.8 million December 05, 2018

Brazil had 54.8 million persons living on less than R$ 406 per month in 2017, two million more than in 2016. That means the proportion of the population...

Summay of Social Indicators

Rate of admission to tertiary education is higher among students from private schools December 05, 2018

Among the students who finished high school in the public education segment, only 36% went to university. Considering students from provate schools,...

Complete Life Tables

Life expetancy at birth of Brazilians increases to 76 years of age; infant mortality records decrease November 29, 2018

Life expectancy at birth remained on an upward trend in Brazil in 2017, reaching 76 years of age, versus 75.8 years of age, in 2016, according to...

Continuous PNAD

Unemployement rate drops to 11.7% with election jobs November 29, 2018

Influenced by the creation of election jobs, the unemployment rate for the quarter closed in October was 11.7%, a drop of 0.6 percentage points compared...

PNAD Contínua

Unemployment decreases in 5 states and increases in Roraima, only; Northeast Region has highest rate November 14, 2018

The decrease of the national unemployment rate to 11.9% in the quarter ended September was concentrated in only five Federation Units (Rio de Janeiro,...

Continuous PNAD

CNPJ registry has first drop after five years in 2017 November 08, 2018

In 2017, after five years of growth, the first fall in the registration rate in the National Register of Legal Entities (CNPJ) among employers and...

Continuous PNAD

Union membership falls to 14.4%, the lowest rate since 2012 November 08, 2018

Of the 91.5 million employed persons in the country in 2017, only 13.1 million were associated to some labor union, according to the National Household...

Proportion of women who have had children after 30 years old grows October 31, 2018

Data from Vital Statistics, released today by the IBGE, reveal that in 35.1% of the cases of the 2.86 million births registered in Brazil in 2017,...

Marriages last 14 years on average in Brazil October 31, 2018

In 2007, the average length of a civil marriage could be estimated at 17 years. Ten years later, the average time between the date of the wedding...

Violent deaths kill 11 times more young men than women October 31, 2018

In Brazil, men aged 20 to 24 have 11 times more chances of dying from a violent death than women in the same age bracket, according to Vital Statistics...

Informality boosts employment's high of 1.5% in quarter ended in September October 30, 2018

Driven by informal work, the employed population increased by 1.5% (1.3 million more persons) in the quarter closed in September, leading the unemployment...

Statute of the Elderly completes 15 years October 01, 2018

Celebrated on October 1st, the International Day of Older Persons marks 15 years of the enactment of the Statute of the Elderly. According to the...

Profile of the Brazilian Municipalities

Natural disasters: 59.4% of municipalities lack risk management plans July 05, 2018

Of the 5,570 Brazilian municipalities, more than half (59.4%) did not count on instruments for planning and managing risks in 2017. Only 25% of them...