Ireland
Ireland in numbers
38 measures of Ireland from 1789 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending0.22% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$1.46B in 2025
- Military spending per person$272 in 2025
- Military share of state spending0.9% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel9,000 people in 2020
- National power0.05% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.37% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports14 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports24 million TIV in 2025
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Ireland with…
- Ireland vs India
- Ireland vs China
- Ireland vs United States
- Ireland vs Indonesia
- Ireland vs Pakistan
- Ireland vs Nigeria
- Ireland vs Brazil
- Ireland vs Bangladesh
- Ireland vs Russia
- Ireland vs Ethiopia
- Ireland vs Mexico
- Ireland vs Japan
- Ireland vs Egypt
- Ireland vs Philippines
- Ireland vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Ireland vs Vietnam
- Ireland vs Iran
- Ireland vs Türkiye
- Ireland vs Germany
- Ireland vs Thailand
- Ireland vs Tanzania
- Ireland vs United Kingdom
- Ireland vs France
- Ireland vs South Africa
- Ireland vs Italy
- Ireland vs Kenya
- Ireland vs Myanmar (Burma)
- Ireland vs Colombia
- Ireland vs South Korea
- Ireland vs Sudan
- Ireland vs Spain
- Ireland vs Argentina
- Ireland vs Canada
- Ireland vs Saudi Arabia
- Ireland vs Poland
- Ireland vs Australia
- Ireland vs Netherlands
- Ireland vs Belgium
- Ireland vs United Arab Emirates
- Ireland vs Sweden
- Ireland vs Israel
- Ireland vs Austria
- Ireland vs Switzerland
- Ireland vs Singapore
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Countries through time