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Key facts

  • Currency: Euro
  • Capital city: Dublin
  • Region: Northern Europe
  • Continent: Europe
  • Land area: 68,890 km²
  • Population: 5,127,170
  • Political Leader: Leo Varadkar (Taoiseach)

Latest news

Pakistan to tour Ireland in May for T20I series

Read: Nation PK

2024-03-28

Broadhurst wants GB switch from Ireland for Olympics

Read: BBC

2024-03-28

Irish AD: Independence 'more valuable than ever'

Read: ESPN

2024-03-28

Independent to take control of BuzzFeed and HuffPost in UK and Ireland

Read: The Guardian

2024-03-28

First he's accosted by a goat in Ireland, then things get dark in this debut thriller

Read: The Star

2024-03-28

Ireland's housing crisis: Tens of thousands of new builds needed

Read: Euronews

2024-03-28

Ireland to intervene in South Africa genocide case against Israel at ICJ

Read: Al Jazeera

2024-03-28

Metrics

Business

Central government debt 64.23 % of GDP
Expense 22.97 % of GDP
GDP 533,140,000,000.00 current US$
Inflation 7.81 annual %
Self-employed 13.96 % of total employment
Tax revenue 17.16 % of GDP
Unemployment 4.48 % of total labor force
Vulnerable employment 10.04 % of total employment


Environment

Agricultural land 43,370.00 km²
Alternative and nuclear energy 4.80 % of total energy use
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) 33,742.20 kt
Electricity production from coal sources 17.35 % of total
Electricity production from natural gas sources 44.01 % of total
Electricity production from hydroelectric sources 2.87 % of total
Electricity production from nuclear sources 0.00 % of total
Electricity production from oil sources 1.45 % of total
Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric 25.09 % of total
Net energy imports 85.67 % of energy use
Fertility rate 1.72 births per woman
Forest area 7,860 km²
Fossil fuel energy consumption 85.34 % of total
Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 883.43 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Median age 33.90 years
Methane emissions 15,252.80 kt of CO2 equivalent
Nitrous oxide emissions 9,572.90 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Female Population 2,586,107
Male Population 2,541,063
Renewable energy consumption 13.69 % of total final energy consumption
Rural land area 67,698.20 km²
Rural population 1,836,398
Urban land area 1,261.39 km²
Urban population 3,290,772
Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters 1.64 % of total population


Health

Birth rate 11.60 per 1,000 people
Death rate 6.60 per 1,000 people
Health expenditure per capita 6,700.18 current US$
Health expenditure 6.73 % of GDP
Incidence of HIV 0.07 per 1,000 uninfected population
Hospital beds 2.97 per 1,000 people
Life expectancy at birth 82 years
Suicide mortality rate 9.60 per 100,000 population


Other

Access to electricity 100.00 % of population
Individuals using the Internet 95.17 % of population
Net migration 9,999
Press freedom 5.21


Politics

Armed forces personnel 9,000
Democracy score 9.15
Democracy type Full democracy
Military expenditure 0.23 % of GDP
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments 23.12 %


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Coordinates: [53°0′N, -8°0′S]
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Datasets

Source

SIPRI, World Bank

Updated: 1 day ago

License

CC BY 4.0

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