Ireland
Republic of Ireland
- Region
- Europe · Northern Europe
- Capital
- Dublin
- Population
- 5,484,367 (2025)
- Government
- parliamentary republic
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Official languages
- English, Irish
- Spoken languages
- English (official, the language generally used), Irish (Gaelic or Gaeilge) (official, spoken by approximately 37.7% of the population)
- Written scripts
- Latin
- Area
- 70,273 km²
- Coastline
- Coastal
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- EU, IMF, OECD, WCO, WTO
- Borders
- United Kingdom
Political stability
78 / 100
Economic stability
87 / 100
Population stability
36 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- vaccines, packaged medicine, nitrogen compounds, integrated circuits, hormones (2023)
- Key imports
- aircraft, nitrogen compounds, vaccines, packaged medicine, integrated circuits (2023)
- Natural resources
- natural gas, peat, copper, lead, zinc, silver, barite, gypsum, limestone, dolomite
- Primary route
- North Sea–Baltic feeder network into Rotterdam, Hamburg, and Antwerp
- Secondary route
- Transatlantic services to North America
The xin.bz view
- Ireland shows how uneven recovery can be: late-August rainfall lifted water restrictions in 13 counties while 13 others stayed under conservation — catchment recovery, not national rainfall, is the indicator that matters.
xin.bz coverage
El Niño Is Arriving as Western Europe Rebuilds Its Water Reserves — While Energy and Arctic Trade Reprice the Atlantic Economy
The Rhine recovering from record lows, England 71% in drought, French crops down hard, Qatar's LNG collapse pushing Europe to U.S. gas, and Iceland and Greenland turning the Atlantic into Western Europe's organizing system.
Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.