Republic of Ireland – IE

EU regions: Republic of 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	2023q4	7
Part time jobs and flexible employment
working hours on full time job	2023q4	38.5
percentage of workers usually working from home	2023	21.8
percentage of part time workers	2022	17.51
percentage of part time workers, men	2022	8.99
percentage of part time workers, women	2022	27.37
Minimum and average wage
share of salaries on GDP	2023q4	27
minimum monthly was as aproportion of average monthly earnings in industry and services	2020	46.1
monthly minimum wage in €	2024q1	2146.3
monthly minimum wage in PPS	2024q1	1508.44
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	2021	105.38
gender gap in employment rate	2023q4	89.14
gender gap in unemployment rate	2023	95.45
Graduates and young people
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education	2023q4	15.4
unemployment rate of youth with secondary education	2023q4	8.8
unemployment rate of youth with tertiary education	2023q4	6.5
NEET	2023	6.5
Gross domestic product
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2023	212
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	20.1

More on wikipedia wikidata Q27 on OpenStreetMap Republic of Ireland slovensky: IE

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

Unemployment

Indicator	Period	Value
Unemployment
unemployment rate	2023q4	4.3
youth unemployment rate	2023q4	9.4
unemployment rate of low educated people	2023q4	9.1
Long term unemployment
long term unemployment	2023q4	1.1
share of long term unemployed	2023q4	23

Composition of population according to age group, education and economic activity, Republic of 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	2023q4	3.8
aggregate replacement ratio	2022	0.38
aggregate replacement ratio – females	2022	0.42
life expectancy of a 50 year old	2021	33.7
healty life expectancy at 50 years	2021	22.9

Employment by sectors, Republic of 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, Republic of Ireland

Neighbours: United Kingdom

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

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Europe and its regions in numbers - Republic of 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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