Press Statement - Well-being Information Hub

Well-being Information Hub

Statistician's Comment

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today (02 September 2025) published an update to our Well-being Information Hub, which reports on the well-being of the nation.

Commenting on the CSO Well-being Information Hub, Sarah Crilly, Statistician in the Income, Consumption and Wealth Division, said: “The Well-being Information Hub was launched in October 2021 and contains 35 indicators across 11 domains which include the economy, the environment, and our society with equality and sustainability aspects. It attempts to answer essential questions such as how we are doing as a country, as communities, and as individuals. Some indicators may have older reference points, which we are working to update, and we will advise users of these updates as they occur.

This latest update of the CSO Well-being Information Hub provides a broadly positive picture of life in Ireland in 2025, with most indicators improving or remaining consistent over the long-term. However, some groups performed less well than others. Overall, the indicators generally compared well with the equivalent EU indicators.

For more information on how the Government uses the Well-being indicators please see Understanding Life in Ireland on gov.ie."

Additional Highlights from the Well-being Information Hub

Economic

• Regarding housing and the built environment, there were 9,214 new dwelling completions in Q2 2025, a 35% increase on Q2 2024, at 6,824 new dwelling completions.
• For domestic buildings constructed between 2020 and 2024, 99% had an A Building Energy Rating (BER) in contrast to 36% of those built between 2010 and 2014.
• In Q2 2025, the labour utilisation rate of people aged 15 years and over was 13.1%. It was lower for males at 11.4% and higher for females at 14.9%. It included the number of people classified as unemployed, plus those classified as part-time under-employed, and those outside the labour force who are available for work but not seeking work as a percentage share of the total labour force.
• In 2024, mean weekly earnings were €943, compared with €754 in 2019.
• The median household net wealth of owner-occupied households was €391,600, compared with €10,200 for those who rented or rent-free households in 2023.

Social

• In 2024, 15.8% of individuals reported experiencing moderate to moderately severe or severe depression in the past two weeks. This was highest for females at 18.5% and lowest for males at 12.9%.
• Between 2020 and 2024 the proportion of 16 to 24-year-olds who felt lonely some of the time fell from 24.5% to 11.8%.
• Four out of five people (80%) aged 15 and over were satisfied with how democracy works in Ireland, compared with the EU average of almost three in five (58%) in 2024.

Environment

• Total greenhouse gases (in CO₂equivalent) fell by 11% between 2018 and 2023, down from 61.6 million tonnes to 54.9 million tonnes.
• The proportion of waste that was sent to landfill was 14.4% in 2022, similar to 2018 at 14.3%.