Ireland – IE

EU regions: Ireland

Indicator	Period	Value
Labour market policy
public expenditure on labour market policies as % of GDP	2020	1.925
public expenditure on active labour market policies	2020	1.332
Life long learning
life long learning participation	2023	12.3
Precarious work
percentage of employees ususally working on Sunday	2023	17.9
percentage of employees ususally working at nights	2023	5
percentage of employees with temporary contracts	2024q2	6.3
Part time jobs and flexible employment
working hours on full time job	2024q2	38.3
percentage of workers usually working from home	2023	21.8
percentage of part time workers	2024q2	17.04
percentage of part time workers, men	2024q2	8.91
percentage of part time workers, women	2024q2	25.83
Minimum and average wage
share of salaries on GDP	2024q2	30.2
minimum monthly was as aproportion of average monthly earnings in industry and services	2020	46.1
monthly minimum wage in €	2024q3	2146.3
monthly minimum wage in PPS	2024q3	1514.02
annual net earnings of a full-time single worker without children earning an average wage in PPS	2023	30 327
Gender differences
gender pay gap	2022	9.3
employment of mothers of more than 3 children	2023	61.4
healthy life expectancy of men vs. women	2022	104.19
gender gap in employment rate	2023	89.39
gender gap in unemployment rate	2023	95.45
Graduates and young people
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education	2023	17.8
unemployment rate of youth with secondary education	2024q2	10.2
unemployment rate of youth with tertiary education	2024q2	9.7
NEET	2023	6.5
Gross domestic product
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2023	211
HICP inflation	September 2024	0
Payable interest of public debt as % od GDP	2023	0.7
Employment
employment rate	2023	74
Social exclusion
people at risk of poverty or social exclusion	2020	19.2

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Subregions: Ireland, Northern & Western Region, Southern Region, Eastern & Midland Region

Unemployment

Indicator	Period	Value
Unemployment
unemployment rate	2023	4.4
youth unemployment rate	2023	10.7
unemployment rate of low educated people	2024q2	9.2
Long term unemployment
long term unemployment	2024q2	0.9
share of long term unemployed	2024q2	17.8

Composition of population according to age group, education and economic activity, Ireland

Age group	Low education	Middle education	High education
Y20-29	P: 27.7 E: 6.5; U: 8.2; I: 13.0	P: 294.9 E: 202.6; U: 16.2; I: 76.1	P: 276.4 E: 238.6; U: 14.5; I: 23.3
Y30-39	P: 43.9 E: 21.3; U: 3.1; I: 19.5	P: 231.3 E: 176.7; U: 9.8; I: 44.8	P: 427.6 E: 384.9; U: 10.7; I: 32.0
Y40-49	P: 74.9 E: 44.4; U: 3.5; I: 27.0	P: 252.3 E: 204.5; U: 8.0; I: 39.8	P: 451.1 E: 405.3; U: 9.9; I: 35.9
Y50-59	P: 121.1 E: 71.7; U: 4.1; I: 45.3	P: 239.6 E: 181.6; U: 7.0; I: 51.0	P: 281.3 E: 246.8; U: 5.5; I: 29.0
Y60-69	P: 158.0 E: 53.1; U: 1.7; I: 103.2	P: 186.3 E: 83.1; U: 2.4; I: 100.8	P: 167.5 E: 81.8; U: 3.0; I: 82.7

Note: in thousands in 2022, according to labour force sample survey. P – total population, E – employed, U – unemployed, I – number of ecnomically inactive

Demographics

Indicator	Period	Value
Demographics
number of inhabitants	2023	5.271395e+06
population density	2022	75.2
old-age dependency ratio	2023	23.2
Population ageing
unemployment rate – over 55 years	2024q2	2.8
aggregate replacement ratio	2023	0.39
aggregate replacement ratio – females	2023	0.44
life expectancy of a 50 year old	2022	33.9
healty life expectancy at 50 years	2022	22

Employment by sectors, Ireland

NACE r2		%	NACE r2		%
A	107.8	4 %	B-E	325.3	12 %
F	166.5	6 %	G-I	628.7	23 %
J	174.1	6 %	K	125	5 %
L	11.1	0 %	M_N	290.1	11 %
NRP	7.1	0 %	O-Q	725.7	27 %
R-U	123	5 %	TOTAL	2684.5	100 %

Data for the period year 2023. Source of the data is Eurostat, table [lfst_r_lfe2en2].

Other: Italy, Iceland, Ireland

Neighbours: United Kingdom

Subregions: Ireland, Northern & Western Region, Southern Region, Eastern & Midland Region

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Europe and its regions in numbers - Ireland – IE, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/​PIE, ISBN: 978-80-970204-9-1, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10200164

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