Unemployment Rate in Ireland decreased to 5 percent in October from 5.10 percent in September of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - Ireland Unemployment Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

The unemployment rate in the Republic of Ireland was 4.7 percent in August 2025, compared with 4.8 percent in the previous month. Between 2000 and 2007, Ireland's unemployment rate was broadly stable, fluctuating between 3.9 and 5.4 percent. Following the global financial crisis, however, Ireland's unemployment rate increased dramatically, eventually peaking at 16.1 percent in early 2012. For the next eight years, unemployment gradually fell, eventually reaching pre-crisis levels in the late 2010s. This was, however, followed by an uptick in unemployment due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which peaked at 7.6 percent in March 2021, before falling to pre-pandemic levels by February 2022. Risk and rewards of the Irish economic model After being quite hard hit by the global financial crisis of 2008, Ireland staged a strong recovery in the mid-2010s, and was frequently the EU's fastest growing economy between 2014 and 2022. This growth, was however, fueled in part by multinational companies, such as Apple, basing their European operations in the country. As of 2022, an adjusted measure of gross national income valued Ireland's economy at around 273 billion Euros, rather than the 506 billion Euros GDP figure. Ireland's close economic relationship with American tech companies also leaves it vulnerable to the political weather in the United States. It is currently unclear, for example, what the recent return to power of Donald Trump as President in early 2025 could mean for the Irish economy going forward. Ireland's labor market As of the third quarter of 2024, there were approximately 2.79 million people employed in the Republic of Ireland. Of these workers, 379,200 people worked in Ireland's human health and social work sector, the most of any industry at that time. Other sectors with high employment levels include wholesale and retail trade, at 323,500 people, and education, at 228,200 people. While unemployment still remains quite low, some indicators suggest a moderate loosening of the labor market. Job vacancies, are slightly down from their peak of 35,300 in Q2 2022, amounting to 28,900 in Q3 2024, while youth unemployment has begun to tick upwards, and was 11.9 percent in January 2025.

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Dublin Region Economic Indicators 13 Regional Economic Indicators to monitor economic development in the Dublin City Region (4 Dublin Local Authorities combined), to accompany Dublin's first quarterly Economic Monitor Report. Data in separate worksheets includes: M 50 Toll Traffic, Office Rents (Q4 Table only), Sectoral Employment, Services Employment, Property Price Index, Dublin Port Tonnage, PRTB Residential Rents, Unemployment Rate, Office Vacancy Rates (Q4 Table only), Airport Arrivals, Public Transport, National Unemployment, Exchange Rates. Date ranges vary for each dataset. Report available in pdf format.

Updated September 2025. Dublin Region Economic Indicators to monitor economic development in the Dublin City Region (4 Dublin Local Authorities combined). Data accompanies the quarterly Dublin Economic Monitor Report. Data in separate worksheets includes: National and Dublin Unemployment, Sectoral Employment, Dublin and National ex Dublin Residential Property Price Indexes, Dublin, GDA and Outside GDA Residential Rents Indexes, Dublin housing completions and commencements, Dublin Public Transport Usage, Dublin Airport passenger arrivals, Dublin Port Tonnage. Disclaimer: ESRI KBC Dublin consumer sentiment: current conditions, future expectations, and overall, are no longer updated. PDF of Dublin Economic Monitor reports available here: www.dublineconomy.ie

This feature layer was created using Census 2016 data produced by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) and Administrative Counties national boundary data (generalised to 50m) produced by Tailte Éireann. The layer represents Census 2016 theme 13.1, persons at work or unemployed by occupation and sex. Attributes include a breakdown of population by occupation and sex (e.g. sales and customer service occupations - males, professional occupations - females, managers, directors and senior officials - total). Census 2016 theme 13 represents Occupation. The Census is carried out every five years by the CSO to determine an account of every person in Ireland. The results provide information on a range of themes, such as, population, housing and education. The data were sourced from the CSO. In census reports the country is divided into 29 counties/administrative counties and the five Cities which represent the local authority areas. Outside Dublin there are 26 administrative counties (North Tipperary and South Tipperary each ranks as a separate county for administrative purposes) and four Cities, i.e. Cork, Limerick, Waterford and Galway. In Dublin the four local authority areas are identified separately, i.e. Dublin City and the three administrative counties of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin.

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The inflation rate for the Republic of Ireland in October 2025 was *** percent, up from *** percent in the previous month. During the provided time period, inflation reached a peak of *** percent in October 2022 and was at its lowest in October 2020, when prices were falling by *** percent. In the most recent month, the sector that had the fastest rate of price rises was food, at **** percent, while prices were falling by *** percent for transportation. Inflation subsides but remains a key issue Like in many other economies, the global inflation crisis led to increased inflation in Ireland from 2021 to 2023, reaching a peak of *** percent in late 2022. As of October 2024, approximately ** percent of people in Ireland still saw inflation as one of the top two most important issues facing the country, down from ** percent in July 2022. Furthermore, inflation was second only to housing as a top issue in the country, ahead of health, immigration, and climate change. Another survey highlights the fact that despite inflation subsiding, people are still struggling with the cost of living. When asked how well they are coping financially, just ****** percent of respondents advised they were living comfortably, with ** percent just getting by and almost a quarter finding it quite or very difficult. Key economic indicators of Ireland Ireland's overall gross domestic product (GDP) in 2024 was estimated to be over ***** billion U.S. dollars, up from ***** billion dollars in 2023. Due to the presence of several multinational companies in the country, however, Ireland's GDP figure can be misleading. In 2022, for example, while overall GDP was ***** billion Euros, gross national income (GNI) was just ***** billion Euros, with modified GNI even lower at ***** billion Euros. Looking at Ireland's labor market, there were around **** million people employed in the country in 2024, while the unemployment rate has, as of early 2025, fluctuated between **** and *** percent since April 2022.