Overview
Sourced from IMUNA: Ireland, officially the Republic of Ireland, is an island country off the coast of the United Kingdom. With a population of almost five million and an area of 70,273 sq km, Ireland is the 123rd most populous and 120th largest country in the world. Ireland is bordered by Northern Ireland (a part of the United Kingdom) to the northeast.
Statistics
- Capital: Dublin
- Population: 4,803,000
- Languages: English, Irish Gaelic
- Median Age (years): 36.5
- Human Development Indicators (2016)
- Human Development Index: 0.938
- Human Development Rank: 4
- Life expectancy at birth (years): 81.6
- Expected years of schooling (years): 19.6
- Mean (avg.) years of schooling (years): 12.5
- Gross national income (GNI) per capita (2011 PPP $): 53,754
- Income inequality, Gini coefficient: 31.9
- Gender Development Index (GDI): 0.979
- Population living below income poverty line, PPP $1.90 a day (%): n.a
- Employment to population ratio (% ages 15 and older): 56.2
- Internet users (% of population): 85.0
- Carbon dioxide emissions per capita (tonnes): 7.3
- Forest area (% of total land area): 10.9
- Forest area (total change %): 62.2