Current account balance estimates (% GDP) of the United Kingdom by component since 1800. Source: World Historical BoP Database wbop.world#data

Global trade exports (% of world GDP) from 1800-2025. Source: Nievas & Piketty's Historical BoP Database wbop.world#data

Population of the Republic of Ireland was 5.5 million in April 2025, according to latest CSO estimates www.cso.ie/en/releasesa...

Population of Ireland (5.44m) is now the 18th highest in the European Union overtaking Slovakia (5.42m), according to latest Eurostat estimates ec.europa.eu/eurostat/dat...

Irish-born population living in Ireland and abroad by county/state in 1870/71. Largest population were in New York (528,806), Cork (501,664) and Antrim (391,816).

Estimated populations from-Ireland-living-abroad and from-abroad-living-in-Ireland by destination/origin from 1990-2024

Number of people from the Republic of Ireland living abroad was around 714,000 in 2024, according to latest UN migrant stock estimates www.un.org/development/...

At least we'd qualified for Euro 88 a few weeks before! Interesting the concern for finding work for all the young people in the years ahead. Not unreasonable given the economy's state. And the fact Irish population pyramid (like many developing countries today) actually looked like a pyramid.

Ireland's GDP and NNI per capita as a % of the world average from 1970-2023. (Source: WID) wid.world/data/

The composition of the global population by income and poverty line groups in 1990 and 2024 www.worldbank.org/en/publicati...

Current & future retirement ages for a man with a full career from age 22 in OECD countries www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Female share of household labour income over the past three decades in the UK - @resfoundation.bsky.social www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...

Share of foreign-trained doctors & nurses in European countries in 2023 www.oecd.org/en/publicati...