🇮🇪 Ireland
Republic of Ireland
Every statistic we track for Ireland — 154 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$159,129
81.1 yrs
6.93
0.82
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All indicators
📈 Economy
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 1.5 | #159/217 | 2024 |
| Gender Inequality Index | 0.1 | #154/172 | 2023 |
| Median Age | 39.2 | #67/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 4.6 | #121/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 5.6 | #115/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 78.4 | #139/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 69 | #160/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 64.3% | #106/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 100% | #48/214 | 2024 |
| Internet Users | 97.2% | #16/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 110.6 | #109/209 | 2022 |
| Weekly Internet Use | 94% | #9/34 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
🎓 Education
| Mean Years of Schooling | 13.7 | #1/146 | 2020 |
| PIRLS Reading, Grade 4 | 577.3 | #2/53 | 2021 |
| PISA Mathematics Score | 492 | #11/79 | 2022 |
| PISA Reading Score | 516 | #2/79 | 2022 |
| PISA Science Score | 504 | #11/79 | 2022 |
| TIMSS Mathematics, Grade 4 | 545.8 | #10/55 | 2023 |
| TIMSS Mathematics, Grade 8 | 521.7 | #6/41 | 2023 |
| TIMSS Science, Grade 4 | 531.9 | #14/55 | 2023 |
| TIMSS Science, Grade 8 | 525 | #9/41 | 2023 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 6 | #41/203 | 2024 |
| Energy Use per Person | 2,468 | #45/149 | 2023 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 65.8 | #16/179 | 2024 |
| Renewable Electricity | 46.5% | #71/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| News Avoidance (Digital News Report) | 47% | #11/48 | 2026 |
| Paying for Online News (Digital News Report) | 22% | #5/42 | 2026 |
| Press Freedom Index | 85.9 | #7/177 | 2026 |
| Social Media as News Source (Digital News Report) | 47% | #32/48 | 2026 |
| Trust in News (Digital News Report) | 42% | #15/48 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Global Peace Index | 1.3 | #159/160 | 2025 |
| Homicide Rate | 0.4 | #197/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 2.8 | #182/195 | 2021 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 93.6% | #20/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 48% | #65/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 1.5 | #88/193 | 2026 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 15.3% | #116/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 8% | #59/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 2.3 | #162/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 64.3 | #21/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 3.3 | #118/193 | 2026 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 59.1% | #105/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 6.9 | #13/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 1 | #32/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 2.1 | #3/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0.2 | #15/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 0.9 | #22/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0.4 | #10/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 1.6 | #19/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 0.9 | #11/193 | 2023 |
| Life Satisfaction (Eurobarometer) | 96.4% | #1/34 | 2024 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Attended a Demonstration | 10.5% | #82/151 | 2017 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 85.9% | #52/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 73.5% | #89/143 | 2018 |
| Individualism | 70 | #13/65 | 2010 |
| Left–Right Self-placement | 5.5 | #24/53 | 2011–2024 |
| Masculinity | 68 | #9/65 | 2010 |
| Power Distance | 28 | #61/65 | 2010 |
| Signed a Petition | 28.7% | #30/121 | 2017 |
| Trade Union Membership | 18.5% | #30/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in government | 4.1 | #93/123 | 2017 |
| Trust in parliament | 4.2 | #100/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in People (ESS) | 5.4 | #9/38 | 2023 |
| Trust in political parties | 3.6 | #66/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in Science | 89.8% | #17/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 90.2% | #10/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in the legal system | 5.2 | #62/153 | 2017 |
| Uncertainty Avoidance | 35 | #57/65 | 2010 |
| Voting Makes a Difference | 78% | #9/54 | 2011–2024 |
Latest available period per indicator. The rank counts down from the highest value, whatever that means for the series: on child mortality or extreme poverty the country at #1 is the worst in the world, not the best. Sources are credited on each indicator page.