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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...

Industrial output grows 0.8% in October, third rise in a row December 04, 2019

According to the Monthly Industrial Survey, released today (4) by the IBGE, the output of the...

Industrial output grows 0.8% in October December 04, 2019

In the seasonally-adjusted series, the industrial output grew 0.8% in October 2019 against...

GDP grows 0.6% in Q3 pushed by services and industry December 03, 2019

The national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew 0.6% in Q3 2019, against the previous quarter,...

GDP grows 0.6% against Q2 and reaches R$ 1.842 trillion December 03, 2019

The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) recorded an increase of 0.6% in Q3 2019 against Q2 2019, in the...

IBGE releases Continuous Cartographic Base on scale 1:100,000 December 02, 2019

Today the IBGE makes available on its website the continuous vector cartographic base of the State...

Blacks and browns are the minority heading large agricultural establishments November 29, 2019

For the first time, the Census of Agriculture investigated the color or race of the country’s more than...

Rio: more than half of the state's area with high risk of landslides November 29, 2019

More than half of the state of Rio de Janeiro is under a very high riks of landslides. This is...

Unprecedent IBGE study shows South and Southeast as the most likely regions to have landslides November 29, 2019

Today the IBGE puts out an unprecedent study on landslides in the country. The map “Brazil's...

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