Ireland PESTLE Insights – A Macroeconomic Outlook Report

Mining, manufacturing, and utilities contributed 41.1% to Ireland’s gross value added (GVA) in 2022, followed by transport, storage, and communication (20.5%), and financial intermediation, real estate, and business activities (19.7%). In nominal terms, the three sectors are forecast to grow by 10.5%, 10.5%, and 10.3%, respectively, in 2023.

According to Eurostat, the Eastern and Midland region of Ireland, which contributed the most to GDP at 53.9% in 2021, also represented the highest proportion of the total population at 49.3% in 2022.

Scope

In 2021, the government unveiled the National Development Plan 2021–30 with an investment of EUR165 billion ($173.9 billion) in infrastructure projects.

Reasons to buy

Macroeconomic Outlook Report identifies the potentials of the country as an investment destination by analyzing the political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental (PESTLE) structure.

PESTLE Insights provides 360 degree view of the economy which can be used as a strategic tool to understand the market dynamics, business potentials and direction of operations

Along with providing the country’s snapshot, the report captures the risk factors pertaining to the macroeconomic risks, political environment, legal environment, demographic and social structure effectiveness, technology & infrastructure and natural and geographic aspects that might impact business.

This report also highlights key clusters/cities which contribute significantly to the country GDP and population along with major companies’ presence in these areas.

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Table of Contents

List of Exhibits

Did You Know?

Country Highlights

Key Economic Updates

Country Snapshot

Political Landscape

Economic Landscape

Social Landscape

Technological Landscape

Legal Landscape

Environmental Landscape

Outlook

List of Tables

Exhibit 1: Ireland’s performance in terms of its country risk analysis in comparison to West-Europe and the World average

Exhibit 2: Performance overview (score: 0-100)

Exhibit 3: Broad categories and weights behind the index

Exhibit 4: ISEQ Index, (August 2022 – August 2023)

Exhibit 5: Key sectors contribution to the economy (2017–24f)

Exhibit 6: FDI inflows, FDI outflows, FDI inward stock and FDI outward stock (2018–22)

Exhibit 7: Greenfield FDI projects and net cross border M&As purchase deals in Ireland (2018–22)

Exhibit 8: Key infrastructure indicators (2020)

Exhibit 9: Real GDP and household consumption growth rate (2018–25f)

Exhibit 10: Real GDP growth rate comparison (2022)

Exhibit 11: Volume of exports and imports growth (2018–25f)

Exhibit 12: Current account balance (2018–25f)

Exhibit 13: Top three commodity exports, % of total exports (2018–22)

Exhibit 14: Exports of pharmaceutical products, % of world total (2022)

Exhibit 15: Interest rates (September 2018 – September 2023)

Exhibit 16: Exchange rate and inflation (2018–25f)

Exhibit 17: Public finance (2018–25f)

Exhibit 18: General government debt (2018–25f)

Exhibit 19: Unemployment rate (2018–25f)

Exhibit 20: Average annual wages (2018–25f)

Exhibit 21: Labor cost index (2018–25f)

Exhibit 22: Rural/urban share of total population (1995, 2005, 2015, 2025f)

Exhibit 23: Age-group share of total population (1995, 2005, 2015, 2025f)

Exhibit 24: Gender split (1995, 2005, 2015, 2025f)

Exhibit 25: Internet users as a percentage of total population, mobile penetration rate and broadband penetration rate (2022)

Exhibit 26: Number of patents granted per million population (2022)

Exhibit 27: High-technology exports, % of manufactured exports (2021)

Exhibit 28: Rule of law (rankings), 2022

Exhibit 29: Corruption perceptions index (rankings) (2022)

Exhibit 30: Renewable energy capacity (2017–21)

Exhibit 31: CO2 emissions (2018–22)

List of Figures

List of Figures

Exhibit 1: Ireland's performance in terms of its country risk analysis in comparison to western Europe and the world

Exhibit 2: Performance overview (score: 1-100)

Exhibit 3: Broad categories and weights behind the index

Exhibit 4: Ireland stock market index (October 2021 – October 2022)

Exhibit 5: Key sectors’ contribution to the economy (2017-24f)

Exhibit 6: FDI inflows, FDI outflows, FDI inward stock and FDI outward stock (2017-21)

Exhibit 7: Greenfield FDI projects and net cross border M&As purchase deals in Ireland (2017-21)

Exhibit 8: Key infrastructure indicators

Exhibit 9: Real GDP and household consumption growth rate (2017-24f)

Exhibit 10: Real GDP growth rate comparison (2021)

Exhibit 11: Export, import and trade balance (2017-24f)

Exhibit 12: Current account balance (2017-24f)

Exhibit 13: Top three commodity exports, % of total exports (2017-21)

Exhibit 14: Pharmaceutical products, % share of world’s total exports (2021)

Exhibit 15: Interest rates (September 2017 – September 2022)

Exhibit 16: Exchange rate (2017-24f))

Exhibit 17: Public finance (2017-24f)f)

Exhibit 18: General government debt (2017-24f)

Exhibit 19: Employment/unemployment (2017-24f)

Exhibit 20: Average annual wages (2017-24f)

Exhibit 21: Labor cost index (2017-24f)

Exhibit 22: Rural/urban share of total population (1995, 2005, 2015, 2025)

Exhibit 23: Age-group share of total population (1995, 2005, 2015, 2025)

Exhibit 24: Gender split (1995, 2005, 2015, 2025)

Exhibit 25: Internet users as a percentage of total population, mobile penetration rate and broadband penetration rate (2021)

Exhibit 26: Number of patents granted per million population (2021)

Exhibit 27: High-technology exports (% of manufactured exports) (2021)

Exhibit 28: Doing business in Ireland 2020

Exhibit 29: Corruption perceptions index (rankings) (2021)

Exhibit 30: CO2 emissions (2017-21)

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