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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 (see all)
Double tragedy as British and Irish tourists die in same Portugal holiday resort
Read: Express
2024-04-21
Ireland's AIB could be fully privatised by 2025 after bumper profits
Read: Financial Times
2024-04-21
Metrics
General information
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 | 4.45 % 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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Source
SIPRI, World Bank, Reporters Without Borders
Updated: 1 day ago
