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Total of €1.2 trillion supplied at purchasers' prices in the Irish economy in 2019, up from €965 billion in 2018

Online ISSN: 2009-6291
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Table 2.1 below contains an aggregated version of the 2019 Use Table at current purchasers' prices. Total Intermediate Consumption by industry and product was €390 billion in 2019. Subtracting total Intermediate Consumption by industry and product from total Domestic Supply (also called Output) by industry and product of €724 billion leaves Gross Value Added (GVA) of €334 billion euros. Total GVA was composed of Compensation of Employees of €101 billion, Gross Operating Surplus of €231 billion and Taxes less Subsidies on Production (such as commercial rates and employment subsidies respectively) of €1.4 billion.

The Use Table also contains Final Uses. Final Consumption Expenditure was mostly made by households and was €146 billion in 2019. A second item of Final Uses is Capital Formation (including changes in Inventories). This was valued at €197 billion in 2019. The final item of Final Uses is Exports. Exports (valued as free on board, i.e. exclusive of insurance and freight costs) were €451 billion.

Adding Intermediate Consumption to Final Uses equals Total Uses. Total Uses were €1.2 trillion in 2019. This is the same number as the sum of Total Supply. Total Supply must equal Total Uses.

Table 2.1 Summary of 2019 Use Table at purchasers' prices€m
 Industries       
 Agriculture, forestry & fishingManufacturingConstruction Distribution, transport & communicationBusiness servicesOther services Total inter-industry Final ConsumptionCapital FormationExports f.o.b. (free on board)Total Uses
Products(1-3)(5-39)(41-43)(45-61)(62-82)(84-97)       
Agriculture, forestry & fishing2,0347,6817661330191 10,625 1,90941,06313,601
Manufacturing3,29155,3108,01724,6437,94210,731 109,935 44,76229,764205,191389,652
Construction13647112,188050581 13,425 1523,69010637,237
Distribution, transport & communication929,0811,03619,95612,8325,323 48,321 16,669082,790147,779
Business services72053,7633,31729,874106,3095,425 199,409 28,110143,305161,337532,161
Other services518861799703,3052,819 8,209 54,03719181363,250
Total Intermediate Consumption6,325127,19224,81376,056130,46825,069 389,923 145,503196,955451,3001,183,680
Compensation of Employees (COE)77714,1954,15121,97128,64331,237 100,974     
Gross Operating Surplus (GOS)4,069101,9884,57941,59570,2938,736 231,260     
Taxes less subsidies on production-1,7221,100306761,27358 1,416     
Gross Value Added (GVA) at basic prices3,125117,2838,76064,241100,20940,031 333,650     
Output at basic prices9,450244,47533,573140,297230,67765,100 723,573     

Figure 2.1 shows the shares of the Use Table by component and product. Exports (38%) made up the largest share of Total Uses in the Irish economy in 2019. The second largest share of Total Uses was Intermediate Consumption (33%). This was followed by Capital Formation (17%) (including changes in Inventories) and Final Consumption (12%) respectively. Exports of products of Distribution, Transport and Communication (CPA 45-61) (56%) and exports of products of Manufacturing (CPA 05-39) (53%) made up the majority of Total Uses for their respective product categories. Intermediate consumption made up the majority of total uses for products of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing (CPA 01-03) (78%). Final Consumption made up the majority of Total Uses of products of Other Services (CPA 84-97) (85%). Capital Formation (including changes in Inventories) made up the majority of Total Uses of products of Construction (CPA 41-43) (64%).

X-axis labelExportsCapital FormationFinal ConsumptionIntermediate Consumption
Total (CPA 1-97)38.126814251845116.639203147561312.292394897827232.9415877027664
Agriculture, forestry & fishing (1-3)7.814817104337120.031335464037952914.038448116767278.1153993148578
Manufacturing (5-39)52.66001214310117.63853367989311.487786671817628.2136675051883
Construction (41-43)0.28390482387870563.62078879443820.041229396518708136.0540769851643
Distribution, transport & communication (45-61)56.0225307613087011.279707903743132.6977613349482
Business services (62-82)30.317343316387626.92896179188355.2822178950343837.4714769966946
Other services (84-97)1.286058372216120.30213508463609485.433433141116712.9783734020311

Disaggregate data for Use in 2019 and previous years can be found below:

Use Table at purchasers' prices: Supply and Use Tables 2019 Table 2.2 (XLS 41KB)   

Get the data: PxStat NIA14, Eurostat database