Development and Industry
Population: 4,607,000
Health: expenditure per capita:9.4%
- GNI PPP Per Capita (US$): $35,090
- Women as % of nonfarm Wage earners: 46%
- Women as % of Parliament: 14%
- CO2 emissions per capita(metric tons): 9,890,000
- Death Due to Non-Communicable Diseases: 87%
- Births attended by skill health personnel(%): 100%
- Democracy: CPIA gender equality rating: 0.989
- Economy: Big Mac Index: $4.04
- Economy: Cash surplus/Deficit(% of GDP): -7.2% of GDP
- Economy: human development index:0.964
- Education: average years of school for adults: 9.4
- Education: education spending(as % of GDP): 22.22%
- Education: teachers as % of labor force: 4.7%
- Education: pupil-teacher ratio (elementary): 15.57
Health: expenditure per capita:9.4%
- Health: hospital beds per 1000: 4.3
- Health: physicians per 1000: 2.79
- Media: televisions (total number): 1.82 million
- Media: per capita televisions: 400.08 per 1000
- % of GDP as industry: 28%
- Total labor force: 2.161 million
- % of labor force in industry: 19%
- Unemployment rate: 13.5%
- Public debt% of GDP: 124.2%
- Inflation rate: 0.6%
- Industries: pharmaceuticals, chemicals, computer hardware and software, food products, beverages and brewing, medical devices
- Value of exports: $113.6 billion
- Export commodities: machinery and equipment, computers, chemicals, medical devices, pharmaceuticals; food products, animal products
- Export partners and %: U.S. 17.9%, UK 17.3%, Belgium 15.6%, Germany 8.4%, Switzerland 5.8%, France 8%
- Value of imports: $61.51 billion
- Import commodities: data processing equipment, other machinery and equipment, chemicals, petroleum products, textiles, clothing
- import partners and %: UK 39.8%, US 13.2%, Germany 7.6%, Netherlands 5.7%
- Currency exchange rate to $1.00: 1.862
- Electricity production: 26.04 billion kWh
- Electricity consumption: 26.1 billion kWh
- Electricity from fossil fuels: 76.2%
- Electricity from nuclear fuels: 0%
- Electricity from hydroelectric plants: 2.9%
- Electricity from renewable resources: 17.4%
- Refined oil production: 59,630 bbl/day
- Refined oil consumption: 144,000 bbl/day
- Natural gas production: 373 million cum
- Natural gas consumption: 5.506 billion cum
- # of land/main line telephones: 2.007 million
- # of cellular/mobile telephones: 4.906 million
- # of internet hosts: 1.387 million
- # of internet users: 3.042 million
- # of airports(total): 40
- # of airports with paved runways: 16
- # of km of roadways (total): 96,036
- # of km of roadways paved: 96,036
- # km of waterways: 956
- Location of main ports and terminals: Seaports Dublin, Shannon Foynes