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Press Statement

Preasráiteas

22 November 2021

Ireland's UN SDGs - Goal 10 Reduced Inequalities 2021

Household disposable income increases as education level of head of the household rises
  • Mean Equivalised Net Disposable Income was €27,941 in 2019 compared with €15,692 for the bottom 40% of the income distribution
  • Nearly 18% of people aged 18 years or over said that they felt discriminated against in Quarter 1 2019
  • Labour share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was 29.3% in 2020
  • The refugee population in Ireland was 15,779 in 2019
  • Ireland’s Official Development Assistance (Foreign Aid) was €870 million in 2019

Go to release: Ireland's UN SDGs - Goal 10 Reduced Inequalities 2021

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today (22 November 2021) published Ireland’s UN SDGs – Goal 10 Reduced Inequalities.

This report is the tenth in a series of CSO publications which monitor how Ireland is progressing towards meeting its targets under the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Commenting on the publication, Kevin McCormack, Senior Statistician, said: “This new report, Goal 10 Reduced Inequalities, has data on 14 indicators for Ireland, divided over four chapters: Social, Fiscal, Migration and International Co-operation.

Data are presented in categories such as gender, age group, vulnerable groups and geographical location, where possible. The SDGs and their associated indicators are, by design, wide-ranging in their coverage. As a result, the Irish data is provided by a number of sources including Government Departments, official organisations, and international organisations such as the UN. This publication was developed in collaboration with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth".

Commenting further on the publication, Kevin McCormack, Senior Statistician, said: “Household disposable income rose as the highest level of education attained by the head of household increased.  Where the head of household had primary level education or below, the median for nominal household disposable income was €26,527, compared with €66,811 for those with a third level degree or above.

Mean Equivalised Net Disposable Income was €27,941 in 2019 compared with €15,692 for the bottom 40% of the income distribution.  In 2019 there was a 4.4% growth in mean equivalised net disposable income (nominal).  This compares with a 6.7% increase in the figure for people in the bottom 40% of income distribution.

Nearly 18% of people aged 18 years or over said they felt discriminated against when they took part in the CSO Equality and Discrimination Survey Q1 2019. The most common grounds identified by people who had experienced any form of discrimination were age (34.1%), followed by race/skin colour/ethnic group/nationality (21.9%).

Labour share of GDP (at current market prices) was 29.3% in 2020, showing a decreasing trend from 33.5% in 2016.

There were 15,779 refugees living in Ireland in 2019, representing 0.32% of the population.

Ireland's ODA (Official Development Assistance) was €870 million in 2019 and accounted for 0.32% of GNP. This was an annual increase of 9.9% from €792 million in 2018.  Bilateral ODA was €512 million in 2019, which accounted for 59% of Total ODA”.


Editor's Note:

Editor's Note:

The CSO, Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) and Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri-Ireland) established a project team in April 2017 to engage with a combined UN Statistics Division (UNSD)/Esri research exercise, with a goal to develop and deploy a new approach for monitoring the UN SDG Indicators, using geographic information systems. The result of this exercise is an SDG website (Ireland's SDGs Data Hub, https://irelandsdg.geohive.ie/), hosted on OSi's Geohive platform, which is Ireland’s Central Portal for all SDGs and contains indicators data on the 17 UN SDGs for Ireland. All the indicators in this publication will be loaded onto the Geohive.

The 17 UN SDGs are a set of global development targets adopted by the United Nations (UN) member countries in September 2015 to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. The UN SDGs are driving the global development agenda towards 2030 (Agenda 2030). They address global challenges including those related to poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice. The CSO has a central role in the identification, management, and presentation of the data needed to meet the requirements of the UN SDG Indicators.

Reports currently published in the UN SDG series are:

‘Goal 1 No Poverty’; ‘Goal 2 Zero Hunger’; ‘Goal 3 Good Health and Well-Being’; ‘Goal 4 Quality Education’; ‘Goal 5 Gender Equality’; ‘Goal 6 Clean Water and Sanitation’; ‘Goal 7 Affordable and Clean Energy’; ‘Goal 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth’; and ‘Goal 9 Industry Innovation and Infrastructure'.

For further information contact:

Kevin McCormack (+353) 21 453 5603 or Mary Smyth (+353) 21 453 5309

or email SDG@cso.ie

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