GDP: purchasing power parity - $73.7 billion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 8.4% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $20,300 (1999 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
5%
industry:
39%
services:
56% (1998)
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): 2.2% (1999)
Labor force: 1.77 million (1999 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: services 63%, industry 28%, agriculture 9% (1999 est.)
Unemployment rate: 5.5% (1999)
Budget:
revenues:
$25.3 billion
expenditures:
$20.9 billion, including capital expenditures of $2 billion (1999)
Industries: food products, brewing, textiles?, clothing; chemicals?, pharmaceuticals?, machinery, transportation equipment, glass and crystal; software
Industrial production growth rate: 10% (1999 est.)
Electricity - production: 19.715 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
94.12%
hydro:
4.63%
nuclear:
0%
other:
1.25% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 18.415 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 100 million kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 180 million kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: turnip?s, barley?, potatoes, [sugar beet]?s, wheat?; beef?, dairy products
Exports: $66 billion (f.o.b., 1999 est.)
Exports - commodities: machinery and equipment, computers, chemicals?, pharmaceuticals?; live animals, animal products
Exports - partners: EU 68% (UK 22%, Germany 15%, France 8%), US 15% (1998)
Imports: $44 billion (c.i.f., 1999 est.)
Imports - commodities: data processing equipment, other machinery and equipment, chemicals; petroleum and petroleum products, textiles, clothing
Imports - partners: EU 54% (UK 31%, Germany 6%, France 5%), US 16%, Japan 7%, Singapore 4% (1998)
Debt - external: $11 billion (1998)
Economic aid - donor: ODA, $240 million (1999)
Currency: 1 [Irish pound]? = 100 pence
Exchange rates:
Irish pounds per US$1 - 0.9865 (January 2000), 0.9374 (1999), 0.7014 (1998), 0.6588 (1997), 0.6248 (1996), 0.6235 (1995)
note:
on 1 January 1999, the European Union introduced a common currency the euro, which is now being used at a fixed rate of 0.787564 Irish pounds per euro; the euro has replaced the pound in many financial and business transactions; it will replace the local currency in consenting countries for all transactions in 2002
Fiscal year: calendar year