Ireland

Facts

Population:  3,840,838 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:  0-14 years:  21.57% (male 425,328; female 403,204) 15-64 years:  67.08% (male 1,290,002; female 1,286,312) 65 years and over:  11.35% (male 188,868; female 247,124) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:  1.12% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:  14.57 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:  8.07 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:  4.69 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:  at birth:  1.07 male(s)/female under 15 years:  1.05 male(s)/female 15-64 years:  1 male(s)/female 65 years and over:  0.76 male(s)/female total population:  0.98 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:  5.53 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:  total population:  76.99 years male:  74.23 years female:  79.93 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:  1.9 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:  0.1% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:  2,200 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:  less than 100 (1999 est.)
Nationality:  noun:  Irishman(men), Irishwoman(women), Irish (collective plural) adjective:  Irish
Ethnic groups:  Celtic, English
Religions:  Roman Catholic 91.6%, Church of Ireland 2.5%, other 5.9% (1998)
Languages:  English is the language generally used, Irish (Gaelic) spoken mainly in areas located along the western seaboard
Literacy:  definition:  age 15 and over can read and write total population:  98% (1981 est.) male:  NA% female:  NA%
GDP:  purchasing power parity - $81.9 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:  9.9% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:  purchasing power parity - $21,600 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:  agriculture:  4% industry:  38% services:  58% (1999)
Population below poverty line:  10% (1997 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:  lowest 10%:  2% highest 10%:  27.3% (1997)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):  5.6% (2000)
Labor force:  1.82 million (2000 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:  services 64%, industry 28%, agriculture 8% (2000 est.)
Unemployment rate:  4.1% (2000)
Budget:  revenues:  $25.7 billion expenditures:  $19.2 billion, including capital expenditures of $2 billion (2000)
Industries:  food products, brewing, textiles, clothing; chemicals, pharmaceuticals, machinery, transportation equipment, glass and crystal; software
Industrial production growth rate:  14% (2000 est.)
Electricity - production:  19.542 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:  fossil fuel:  94.42% hydro:  4.23% nuclear:  0% other:  1.35% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:  18.414 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:  50 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:  290 million kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:  turnips, barley, potatoes, sugar beets, wheat; beef, dairy products
Exports:  $73.5 billion (f.o.b., 2000)
Exports - commodities:  machinery and equipment, computers, chemicals, pharmaceuticals; live animals, animal products
Exports - partners:  EU 59% (UK 19%, Germany 9%, France 7%), US 20% (2000)
Imports:  $45.7 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:  data processing equipment, other machinery and equipment, chemicals; petroleum and petroleum products, textiles, clothing
Imports - partners:  EU 54% (UK 29%, Germany 6%, France 5%), US 18%, Japan 5%, Singapore 4% (2000)
Debt - external:  $11 billion (1998) Economic aid - donor: ODA, $245 million (2000)
Currency:  Irish pound (IEP); euro (EUR) note:  on 1 January 1999, the EU introduced the euro as a common currency that is now being used by financial institutions in Ireland at a fixed rate of 0.787564 Irish pounds per euro and will replace the local currency for all transactions in 2002
Currency code:  IEP; EUR
Exchange rates:  Irish pounds per US dollar - 1.0658 (January 2001), 1.0823 (2000), 0.9374 (1999), 0.7014 (1998), 0.6588 (1997), 0.6248 (1996)
Fiscal year:  calendar year

Statistics: CIA World Factbook.

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