Ireland 
Facts
Population: 4,109,086 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 20.8% (male 442,664/female 413,556)
15-64 years: 67.5% (male 1,387,803/female 1,385,355)
65 years and over: 11.7% (male 212,782/female 266,926) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 1.143% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 14.4 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 7.79 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: 4.82 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.07 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.07 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.002 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.797 male(s)/female
total population: 0.989 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 5.22 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 5.72 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 4.69 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 77.9 years
male: 75.27 years
female: 80.7 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 1.86 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.1% (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 2,800 (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 100 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Irishman(men), Irishwoman(women), Irish (collective plural)
adjective: Irish.
Ethnic groups: Celtic, English.
Religions: Roman Catholic 88.4%, Church of Ireland 3%, other Christian 1.6%, other 1.5%, unspecified 2%, none 3.5% (2002 census).
Languages: English (official) is the language generally used, Irish (Gaelic or Gaeilge) (official) spoken mainly in areas located along the western seaboard.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 99%
male: 99%
female: 99% (2003 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $180.7 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 6% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $44,500 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 5%
industry: 46%
services: 49% (2002 est.).
Labor force: 2.12 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 8%
industry: 29%
services: 64% (2002 est.).
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): 3.9% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 4.3% (2006 est.).
Budget: revenues: $74.49 billion
expenditures: $73.05 billion; including capital expenditures of $5.5 billion (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: turnips, barley, potatoes, sugar beets, wheat; beef, dairy products.
Industries: steel, lead, zinc, silver, aluminum, barite, and gypsum mining processing; food products, brewing, textiles, clothing; chemicals, pharmaceuticals; machinery, rail transportation equipment, passenger and commercial vehicles, ship construction and refurbishment; glass and crystal; software, tourism.
Industrial production growth rate: 5% (2006 est.).
Electricity - production: 23.26 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 23.23 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 1.6 billion kWh (2004).
Exports: $119.8 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: machinery and equipment, computers, chemicals, pharmaceuticals; live animals, animal products.
Exports - partners: US 18.5%, UK 17.4%, Belgium 15.3%, Germany 7.3%, France 6.5%, Netherlands 4.7%, Italy 4.2% (2005).
Imports: $87.36 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: data processing equipment, other machinery and equipment, chemicals, petroleum and petroleum products, textiles, clothing.
Imports - partners: UK 37.1%, US 13.8%, Germany 9.2%, Netherlands 4.5% (2005).
Debt - external: $1.392 trillion (30 June 2006).
Economic aid - donor: ODA, $607 million (2004).
Currency (code): euro (EUR)
note: on 1 January 1999, the European Monetary Union introduced the euro as a common currency to be used by financial institutions of member countries; on 1 January 2002, the euro became the sole currency for everyday transactions within the member countries.
Exchange rates: euros per US dollar - 0.7964 (2006), 0.8041 (2005), 0.8054 (2004), 0.886 (2003), 1.0626 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
Press
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(Business-oriented), Dublin
http://www.sbpost.ie/
(Conservative), Dublin
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/
(Independent), Dublin
http://www.tribune.ie/
Ireland in the News
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Nicholas Birch, reporting from Tehran for The Irish Times, assesses the health of the reform movement within Iran.
Ireland's Sunday Business Post reviews Israeli journalist and novelist David Grossman's new book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Death as a Way of Life: Dispatches from Jerusalem
World Press Review's Rachel S. Taylor profiles Tom O'Higgins, an Irish polymath who served as a minister for health and a supreme court justice, and twice ran for the presidency of Ireland.
The Independent's Judith Palmer speaks with Irish writer Joe O'Connor about The Star of the Sea, his new novel set during the Irish Famime.
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