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Ireland
Ireland is an EU member state with a population of 5.4M. Member of the European Union since 1973.
28 Eurostat indicators across 4 topics, with full year-by-year history.
Population
5.4M
2025 · rank 18/27
Country at a glance
Ireland is a western europe member of the European Union, with its capital in Dublin. The country joined the European Communities in 1973 in the first enlargement (alongside Denmark and Ireland from 1973, plus the United Kingdom which left in 2020). Economically, Ireland is an open Atlantic-rim economy with a foreign-direct-investment-driven tech and pharmaceutical sector — Apple, Pfizer, Google EMEA — and a GDP-per-capita figure inflated by multinational accounting. The country has used the euro since 1999, and it remains outside the Schengen common travel area. The official languages are Irish, English. On Eurostat's headline indicators, Ireland is currently 18th-most populous of the 27 member states with data on record.
Indicators by topic
Every Eurostat indicator we hold for Ireland, grouped by theme. Click through to the indicator profile for the cross-country timeline.
Labour & employment
5 indicators- Employment — EU-foreign citizens lfsa_egan 262k 2025 ▲2.2%
- Employment — foreign citizens (any) lfsa_egan 587k 2025 ▲7.1%
- Employment — national citizens lfsa_egan 2,102k 2025 ▲0.7%
- Employment — non-EU foreign citizens lfsa_egan 325k 2025 ▲11.4%
- Employment (15-64, all citizenships) lfsa_egan 2,689k 2025 ▲2.0%
Demography & population
5 indicators- Population — EU-foreign citizens migr_pop1ctz 366,693 2025 ▲2.5%
- Population — national citizens migr_pop1ctz 4,565,956 2025 ▲0.7%
- Population — non-EU foreign citizens migr_pop1ctz 506,707 2025 ▲10.2%
- Population — stateless persons migr_pop1ctz 922 2025 ▲12.3%
- Population (total, 1 January) migr_pop1ctz 5,440,278 2025 ▲1.7%
Migration & asylum
15 indicators- Acquisitions of EU citizenship migr_acq 24,059 2024 ▲31.7%
- First-time asylum applications migr_asyappctzm 4,030 2026 ▼69.0%
- Asylum negative first-instance decisions migr_asydcfsta 2,095 2025 ▲55.2%
- Asylum positive first-instance decisions migr_asydcfsta 3,635 2025 ▼4.1%
- Asylum positive — humanitarian protection migr_asydcfsta 270 2025 ▼10.0%
- Asylum positive — refugee status migr_asydcfsta 3,070 2025 ▼4.4%
- Asylum positive — subsidiary protection migr_asydcfsta 295 2025 ▲3.5%
- Asylum first-instance decisions (total) migr_asydcfsta 5,730 2025 ▲11.5%
- Return orders issued to non-EU citizens migr_eiord 6,260 2025 ▲91.1%
- Returns of non-EU citizens (executed) migr_eirtn 2,050 2025 ▲87.2%
- First residence permits — education migr_resfirst 38,416 2024 ▼3.6%
- First residence permits — work migr_resfirst 19,078 2024 ▼20.2%
- First residence permits — family migr_resfirst 4,194 2024 ▼6.0%
- First residence permits — other migr_resfirst 18,297 2024 ▼10.2%
- First residence permits issued (total) migr_resfirst 79,985 2024 ▼9.7%
More data on Ireland
This profile covers Eurostat statistical indicators. The pages below extend the picture into other strands of EU public data — parliamentary representation, public procurement, EU-funded research, cohesion-fund spending, regional statistics.
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European Parliament
MEPs elected from Ireland (current term, 2024–2029).
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Public tenders
TED notices from Ireland buyers — public contracts above EU thresholds.
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EU research grants
CORDIS-funded R&D projects coordinated from Ireland.
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Cohesion funds
Kohesio-listed ERDF/ESF+/Cohesion Fund projects in Ireland.
Sources & methodology
Data on this page comes from Eurostat (28 indicators), fetched from the official dissemination API. Each indicator card links to the cross-country profile with the full year-by-year timeline. See methodology for caveats, revision policy and ranking definitions, or sources for the complete dataset list.
Last refreshed: 2026-06-30 · Source: Eurostat dissemination API