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.
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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