Medians where possible, per-capita averages for spending. This person is a composite of published statistics, not the most common person in the country.
Ireland
has €35,138 a year to spend (per person, after tax, adjusted for household size), works 36.3 hours a week and shares a home with 3 people. Life expectancy there is 83.1 years. Their government spends €23,544 a year per resident.
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everyone, typical disposable income
Typical disposable income per person, by age band, everyone. The line across each column is the EU27 figure.
Every figure Eurostat publishes for all 27, in eight groups. Open a card for the ranking of 27, fifteen years of trend, and the age and sex splits where they exist.
Every euro the general government spends, sorted into the ten functions that every EU country reports against. The mark behind each bar is the EU27 figure.
Top bar: Ireland. Below it, the same €100 split across the EU27.
Reference year 2024. Total public spending €100.00 in every column, so the ten shares always add up to one hundred.
The same ten functions as a yearly budget per resident, next to the EU27 average.
€2,085
per resident a year · 2.0% of GDP
Running the state itself, plus interest on government debt.
€157
per resident a year · 0.1% of GDP
Ireland spends 26% of the EU27 average on defence.
€778
per resident a year · 0.7% of GDP
Police, courts, prisons, and fire services.
€2,181
per resident a year · 2.1% of GDP
Transport, energy, agriculture, and support for industry.
€439
per resident a year · 0.4% of GDP
Waste, water treatment, pollution control, and biodiversity.
€633
per resident a year · 0.6% of GDP
Ireland spends 2.1 times the EU27 average on housing and community.
€5,464
per resident a year · 5.2% of GDP
Ireland spends 1.8 times the EU27 average on health.
€432
per resident a year · 0.4% of GDP
Sport, libraries, broadcasting, museums, and places of worship.
€2,817
per resident a year · 2.7% of GDP
Schools, universities, and student support.
€8,558
per resident a year · 8.2% of GDP
Pensions, unemployment benefit, child benefit, and care.
An allocation model, not an earmarked flow: no euro of tax is tied to a service. It takes one Eurostat model household, adds up what it pays, and spreads that sum the way Ireland spreads its public spending.
One person on an average wage, 2025.
Spread the way Ireland spent in 2024:
The same split as a share of €100
Where the money comes from, 2024
Shares of all receipts from taxes and social contributions. Taxes on income (D51) hold company profits as well as wages; everything else is other taxes on production (D29, where payroll taxes sit), other current taxes (D59) and capital taxes (D91).
The model: gross minus net earnings of one Eurostat tax-benefit model case (earn_nt_net) for the direct part; take-home pay at an effective rate on consumption, taxes on products over household final consumption expenditure (gov_10a_taxag D21 over nama_10_gdp P31_S14), for the rest; and each function's share of public spending (gov_10a_exp) to spread the sum. It is not a tax calculation for anyone: the earnings are a model case rather than a real household, the consumption rate sits above the standard VAT rate because businesses, government and visitors pay taxes on products too, and public spending is funded by borrowing and by revenue that is not tax as well.
The place rather than the person: how much country there is, and what it holds for each resident living in it.
Health staff and beds per 100,000 residents, track and tarmac per 1,000 km², the rest per resident. The chip compares each figure with the EU27.
Eurostat publishes country of birth. It publishes nothing on ethnicity or skin colour, and most member states do not collect it — so these two shares say where residents were born, and nothing else about who they are.
Countries that share a border with Ireland, or the nearest partners across the water.
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Medians where possible, per-capita averages for spending. This person is a composite of published statistics, not the most common person in the country.