The median nominal household disposable income in the Survey of Income and Living Conditions (SILC) 2025 was €61,666, an increase of €2,744 (+4.7%) from the previous year.
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) recorded 137,869 Refugees in Ireland in 2025 compared with 124,730 in 2024.
Ireland’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) in 2024 amounted to a total of €2.35 billion, representing 0.56% of Gross National Income (GNI).
Labour Share of Gross Value Added (GVA) was 32% in 2023, up from 28.1% in 2022.
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown was the administrative local authority area with the highest median gross household income at €84,991 in 2022.
Ireland's UN SDGs – Goal 10 Reduced Inequalities, 2026, is the tenth in a series from the CSO. These releases monitor and report on how Ireland is progressing towards meeting its targets under the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from the United Nations (UN).
The CSO and government departments and organisations collaborate to bring together data required in these reports for Ireland’s SDGs. This collaboration is formalised under the SDG Data Governance Board, which meets on a quarterly basis.
This release includes data for Ireland for each of the SDG indicators selected by the UN to measure 'Goal 10 Reduced Inequalities'. Data is available at various levels of detail which include geography, gender, age group and other categories, where applicable.
This release on Goal 10 has fourteen indicators (See Table of Contents), which are organised into four chapters:
The titles of these chapters are based around common themes in the ten targets which are measured in Goal 10.
The previous releases published in the series under the 17 UN SDG Goals are releases with Ireland's UN SDGs data.
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 17 goals are all interconnected, and in order to leave no one behind, the aim is to achieve them all by 2030. They recognise that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and help economic growth, while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.
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Statistician's Comment
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today (21 September 2026) published Ireland's UN SDGs indicators data for Goal 10 Reduced Inequalities, 2026.
Commenting on the release, Mary Smyth, Statistician, said:
"This latest release on United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) has data on 14 indicators for Ireland, divided over four chapters: Social, Fiscal, Migration and International Co-operation. Data are presented in categories relevant to the indicators and geographical location, where possible. The UN SDGs and their associated indicators are, by design, wide-ranging in their coverage. As a result, the Irish data is provided by several sources including government departments, official organisations, and international organisations such as the UN".
Overall Results
The median nominal household disposable income in SILC 2025 (calendar year 2024) was €61,666, an increase of €2,744 (+4.7%) from the previous year. Using a base income year of 2019 to adjust for inflation: the median real household disposable income was €51,624, an increase of €1,218 (2.4%) compared with the previous year; while the median real equivalised disposable income in SILC 2025 was €26,594, an annual increase of 3.6%. In the five years since SILC 2020, median nominal household disposable income increased by 32.9%. However, after adjusting for inflation, median real household disposable income increased by 11.3% over the same period (from 2020 to 2025).
According to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) report there were 137,869 refugees living in Ireland in 2025, up from 124,730 in 2024. The number of asylum-seekers increased from 31,711 in 2024 to 33,728 in 2025.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's Irish Aid report provides information on Official Development Assistance (ODA), which in 2024 amounted to a total of €2.35 billion, representing 0.56% of Gross National Income (GNI). With first-year Ukrainian refugee costs excluded, the percentage of GNI was 0.41%, an increase from 0.38% in 2023. This included funding for development and humanitarian programmes around the world.
CSO National Accounts data show in 2023, the labour share for the total economy grew to 32%. This constitutes the first year during which the labour share for the Total economy has grown since 2015. In 2023, the labour share continued to be significantly larger in the Domestic sector (53.5%) than the Foreign sector (10.2%), although the gap between these sectors has exhibited a general downward trend since 2016.
By administrative county (local authority) and province, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown had the highest median gross household income (€84,991) in Leinster, while Longford had the lowest (€47,217). In Munster, Cork County was the local authority area with the highest median gross household income (€60,906), while Kerry had the lowest (€48,320). The highest median gross household income by local authority in Connacht was in Galway County (€59,895), and the lowest was in Leitrim (€45,267). In Ulster (part of), the local authority with the highest median gross household income was Cavan (€52,321), while Donegal had the lowest (€42,497).