Almost 90% of Brazilian municipalities have website

Almost 90% of Brazilian municipalities have a website, according to a survey entitled 2014 Profile of Brazilian States and Municipalities, released today (Aug. 26) by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). From 2012 to 2014, there was a growth of 14 percentage points, from 74.5% to 88.7%.

Nearly half of the websites use citizens, enterprises and other institutions as sources of information. About 31.3% of websites allow users to carry out transactions like the payment of bills, taxes, enrollments, and applications. In addition, 17% of the websites are only informative.

An IBGE survey conducted in 2012 painted a very different scenario: 65.3% of the cities had only informative pages, 26.8% had interactive pages, and only 6.8% of the pages allowed users to carry out transactions.

The 2014 survey, in turn, indicates that all 27 state governments run websites on which transactions are possible.

According to survey manager Vania Pacheco, the study reveals a closer relationship between state and local governments and society, due to the significant rise in interactive tools on the websites.

Translated by Amarílis Anchieta