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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(Weekly Sinn Fein party organ), Dublin
http://www.irlnet.com/aprn/
(Business-oriented weekly), Dublin
http://www.businessandfinance.ie
(finance and technology), Dublin
http://www.electricnews.net
Evening Herald
Dublin
(Independent Irish language weekly), Galway
http://www.foinse.ie
(Liberal bimonthly), Dublin
http://www.hotpress.com
(Centrist), Dublin
http://www.irelandonsunday.ie
Ireland in the News
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Denis Fitzgerald reviews Irish coverage of the debate over the Nice Treaty
The European press responds to a new wave of violence in Northern Ireland following the Orange Order's defiance of a ban of its parade through Catholic areas.
The political situation in Northern Ireland often seems to lurch from one crisis to the next. But after a pledge from the Irish Republican Army to place its weapons “beyond use” and allow international inspections, the peace process appeared to be back on track.
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