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Encyclopedia > IBGE

IBGE, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica), is the agency responsible for statistical, geographic, cartographic, geodetic and environmental information in Brazil.


External links

  • IBGE website (http://www.ibge.gov.br/english/default.php)

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Brazil - BRAZZIL - Census 2000. The new numbers are in. 170 million Brazilians - February 2001 (4949 words)
According to IBGE technicians, migrations to the Central-West in the last few decades were motivated by the opening up of new agricultural areas in states such as Mato Grosso and Goiás.
IBGE has noticed that the rural exodus has diminished and the coastal population has increased—the urban growth in Rio has been 1.39 percent.
Technicians of the IBGE say that for the population to remain stable, each family should have the equivalent of 2.1 children.
ILAB - Foreign Labor Trends - Brazil (14615 words)
IBGE figures for open unemployment are misleadingly low because they do not capture the endemic underemployment and the rising number of discouraged workers in Brazil.
According to the IBGE, the share of unregistered workers in the Brazilian economy grew from 42 percent in 1989 to nearly 58 percent a decade later, as more than 11 million jobs arose in the informal sector and 4.3 million formal sector jobs were eliminated.
The IBGE indicates that the average wage in the industrialized Southeast is roughly twice the amount earned by most workers in the impoverished Northeast.
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