The CSO, through Ireland's Institute for SDGs (IIS), supports reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals.
Total government revenue as a proportion of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was 23.2% in 2021 and 23% in 2022.
The proportion of domestic budget funded by domestic taxes by central government was 95.8% in 2022, up from 82.5% in 2021.
In 2021, the Irish government invested more than €976 million in official development assistance (ODA), and preliminary data from the OECD shows Ireland’s total ODA increased to €2.33 billion in 2022.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Ireland increased by €109 billion to €1,208 billion in 2021.
At the end of June (Q2) 2022, there were 1.95 million active broadband subscriber lines in Ireland, an increase of 0.6% on Q1 2022.
Ireland exported nearly €209 billion of goods in 2022 and imported more than €141 billion, which resulted in a trade surplus of €67 billion.
This new publication ‘Ireland's UN SDGs – Goal 17 Partnerships for the Goals 2022’ is the seventeenth in a series from the Central Statistics Office (CSO). These publications monitor and report on how Ireland is progressing towards meeting its targets under the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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. The publication for Goal 17 was developed in collaboration with the Department of Foreign Affairs.
This seventeenth publication includes data for Ireland for each of the SDG indicators selected by the UN to measure 'Goal 17 Partnerships for the Goals'. Data is available at various levels of detail which include geography, gender, age group and other categories, where relevant, in accordance with the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics.
This report on Goal 17 has 24 indicators which are organised into seven user friendly chapters:
The titles of these chapters are the seven categories which the UN uses to classify the nineteen targets which are measured in Goal 17.
The 17 UN SDGs are a set of global development targets adopted by the 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.
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 a new website (Ireland's SDGs Data Hub), 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. This work has been formalised through the creation of Ireland’s Institute for SDGs (IIS) - an initiative between the CSO, OSi and Department of Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC). The membership of the IIS is expected to expand with ongoing monitoring and reporting of Ireland's progress towards meeting UN SDGs.
*Tailte Eireann is an independent Government agency formed by the merger of the Property Registration Authority (PRA), the Valuation Office and Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSI), on 1st March 2023.
Statistician's Comment
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today (02 May 2023) published Ireland’s United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – Goal 17 Partnerships for the Goals 2022.
Commenting on the findings of the publication, Kevin McCormack, Senior Statistician, said: "This latest report on UN SDGs has data on 24 indicators for Ireland, divided over seven chapters: Finance; Technology; Capacity Building; Trade; Policy & Institutional Coherence; Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships; and Data, Monitoring & Accountability. Data are presented in categories relevant to the indicators 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 for Goal 17 was developed in collaboration with the Department of Foreign Affairs. Overall, we can see increases in a number of key government finance indicators in 2021 and a small but steady rise in the number of broadband subscribers in the first half of 2022.
Finance
Total revenue of general government grew by €16.6 billion (16.8%) to stand at a record high of €115.5 billion in 2022. Total government revenue as a proportion of GDP dropped from 25.9% in 2017 to 22.3% in 2020, and rose to 23.2% in 2021, and 23% in 2022.
The proportion of domestic budget funded by domestic taxes by central government was 95.8% in 2022, up from 82.5% in 2021. The corresponding figure for local government was 14.2% in 2022, up from 11.7% in 2021.
In 2021, the Irish government invested more than €976 million in official development assistance (ODA). This was an increase of €108.6 million from the €868 million ODA in 2020. Preliminary data from the OECD shows Ireland’s total ODA increased to €2.33 billion in 2022, representing 0.64% of GNP.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Ireland increased by €109 billion to €1,208 billion in 2021. The increase in FDI in Ireland is largely attributed to increased investment from the US which was offset by decreased investment from other countries.
Technology
At the end of June (Q2) 2022, there were 1.95 million active broadband subscriber lines in Ireland. This was an increase of 0.6% on Q1 2022 and a 3.0% increase on Q2 2021.
Trade
Ireland exported nearly €209 billion of goods in 2022 and imported more than €141 billion, which resulted in a trade surplus of €67 billion. The USA was Ireland’s largest goods export market in 2021, with over €52.5 billion in exports (32% of exports). The UK was the biggest source of imports in 2021, with imports of €19.5 billion which accounted for 19% of all imports."