Society List Women and Men in Ireland 2013

Ireland: Population by age group

1.1 Ireland: Population by age group, 2013¹


Age	Men	Women	Total	Men per 100 women
0-14	513,919	493,764	1,007,683	104
15-24	273,178	260,127	533,305	105
25-44	693,238	720,803	1,414,041	96
45-64	532,241	537,752	1,069,993	99
65-69	94,559	94,874	189,433	100
70-74	67,173	70,983	138,156	95
75-79	48,789	57,040	105,829	86
80-84	30,632	41,987	72,619	73
85 and over	20,117	41,949	62,066	48
Total	2,273,846	2,319,279	4,593,125	98
Source: CSO Demography
¹ Data is preliminary

Open in Excel: Women and Men in Ireland, 2013 Table 1.1 (XLS 12KB)

There are more males than females in the 0-14 and 15-24 age groups because more boys are born than girls.
As more males than females have emigrated in recent years there are fewer men than women in the 25-44 age group.
As women live longer than men, the ratio of men to women in the population in Ireland decreased with age in 2013, from 100 men per 100 women in the 65-69 age group down to 48 men per 100 women in the 85 years and over age group.

Show Graph - 1.1 Ireland: Age composition of the population, 2013

	Men	Women
0	36394	34807
1	38305	36773
2	37126	36154
3	37321	35888
4	37170	35809
5	36314	35419
6	34363	32953
7	33070	31766
8	33416	31426
9	32703	31653
10	32444	31288
11	31746	30705
12	31355	29838
13	30967	29622
14	31225	29663
15	30546	29071
16	30048	28460
17	28709	26982
18	26776	25214
19	25236	23497
20	25566	23887
21	25574	24935
22	27434	25794
23	26590	25725
24	26699	26562
25	27943	29177
26	29879	31558
27	31052	33600
28	32185	34729
29	33042	36801
30	35241	39224
31	36722	40122
32	38898	41274
33	39005	40431
34	37204	39345
35	36418	37706
36	36293	36874
37	36135	36574
38	36133	36441
39	35439	35805
40	35659	35882
41	34898	35011
42	34834	34665
43	33908	33832
44	32350	31752
45	31920	31704
46	31446	31274
47	31087	31223
48	31011	31631
49	30084	30743
50	29345	29882
51	28479	29023
52	28732	29024
53	27437	27920
54	26557	26682
55	26042	26590
56	25733	25775
57	24796	25094
58	24600	24998
59	23665	23855
60	23706	24019
61	22604	22662
62	22208	22161
63	21438	22056
64	21351	21436
65	20937	20940
66	20242	19925
67	19323	19375
68	17485	17810
69	16572	16824
70	15433	16059
71	13942	14429
72	13056	13743
73	12726	13646
74	12016	13106
75	10905	12260
76	10594	11915
77	9842	11556
78	9017	10933
79	8431	10376
80	7513	9459
81	6830	8888
82	6344	8581
83	5351	7858
84	4594	7201
85	3837	6489
86	3362	6033
87	2853	5310
88	2409	4750
89	1904	4140
90	1518	3579
91	1146	2800
92	926	2360
93	746	1892
94	486	1337
95	278	870
96	229	775
97	148	506
98	105	335
99+	170	773

EU: Men per 100 women

1.2 EU: Men per 100 women, 2013¹

number
Country	0-14	15-24	25-64	65 & over	Total
Luxembourg	106	105	104	77	100
Sweden	106	105	103	83	99
Malta	105	107	103	78	99
Denmark	105	105	101	82	98
Netherlands	105	103	101	81	98
Ireland	104	104	97	85	98
Slovenia	106	106	106	67	98
Spain	106	105	101	75	97
Germany	105	105	102	76	97
United Kingdom	105	104	98	81	97
Belgium	105	103	101	75	97
Finland	105	104	102	74	97
Czech Republic	105	105	102	69	96
Greece	105	105	98	80	96
EU	105	105	99	74	95
Austria	105	104	99	73	95
Romania	106	106	100	67	95
Slovakia	105	105	100	61	95
Bulgaria	106	106	101	68	95
Cyprus	106	104	92	85	95
France	105	103	96	73	94
Italy	106	105	98	74	94
Poland	105	104	98	62	94
Croatia	106	105	99	65	93
Portugal	105	103	93	71	91
Hungary	106	106	96	59	91
Estonia	106	106	95	50	88
Lithuania	105	105	91	51	85
Latvia	105	106	91	48	84

Norway	105	106	105	81	101
Turkey	105	105	101	77	101
Iceland	104	106	101	88	101
Macedonia	107	106	102	80	100
Switzerland	106	104	101	77	97
Source: Eurostat, CSO Demography

¹Population on 1 January

Open in Excel: Women and Men in Ireland, 2013 Table 1.2 (XLS 15KB)

Luxembourg had the most gender-balanced population in the EU in 2013 with equal numbers of men and women.
Sweden and Malta both had 99 men per 100 women while the EU average was 95 men per 100 women.
Latvia and Lithuania, at 84 and 85 men per 100 women respectively, had the least gender balanced populations in the EU in 2013.

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Ireland: Migration by age group

1.3 Ireland: Migration by age group, 2003 and 2013¹

000s
	2003		2013
Age group	Men	Women	Men	Women
Emigrants	17.0	12.3	44.9	44.0
0-14	0.7	0.2	3.9	2.9
15-24	9.3	7.7	15.1	19.6
25-44	5.7	3.1	22.5	18.5
45-64	0.6	0.7	3.1	2.6
65 & over	0.7	0.6	0.4	0.4

Immigrants	31.4	28.6	28.2	27.7
0-14	3.6	3.7	3.9	5.4
15-24	7.8	9.8	6.3	6.6
25-44	16.0	12.7	15.4	13.2
45-64	3.4	1.7	2.4	2.2
65 & over	0.7	0.7	0.1	0.3

Net migration	14.4	16.3	-16.7	-16.3
0-14	2.9	3.5	0.0	2.5
15-24	-1.5	2.1	-8.8	-13.0
25-44	10.3	9.6	-7.1	-5.3
45-64	2.8	1.0	-0.7	-0.4
65 & over	0.0	0.1	-0.3	-0.1
Source: CSO Population and Migration estimates

¹Net migration is the number of immigrants less emigrants.

Open in Excel: Women and Men in Ireland, 2013 Table 1.3 (XLS 11KB)

In 2003 there were far more immigrants than emigrants. Ten years later, in 2013, the pattern had reversed: there are now more emigrants than immigrants, with more people leaving the country than entering. There was a net outflow of 16,700 males and 16,300 females in 2013.
The number of males emigrating from Ireland more than doubled between 2003 and 2013, rising from 17,000 to 44,900. The number of female emigrants more than trebled over the same period, rising from 12,300 to 44,000.
The number of male immigrants to Ireland fell from 31,400 to 28,200 between 2003 and 2013 while the number of female immigrants fell slightly from 28,600 to 27,700.

Ireland: Migration

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	Male emigrants	Male immigrants	Female emigrants	Female immigrants
2003	17	31.4	12.3	28.6
2004	12.5	30.5	14	28
2005	14.9	47.5	14.6	37.1
2006	18.7	60.3	17.3	47.5
2007	25.7	80	20.6	71.1
2008	29.6	53.9	19.6	59.5
2009	41.9	36.8	30.1	36.8
2010	40.6	20.4	28.7	21.4
2011	41.9	26	38.8	27.2
2012	48.9	25	38.2	27.8
2013	44.9	28.2	44	27.7

The years of high immigration to Ireland were 2005 to 2008. In 2007, immigration peaked at 80,000 for men and 71,100 for women. Since then, immigration has fallen very sharply for both sexes. In 2013 there were 28,200 male immigrants and 27,700 female immigrants.
The pattern of emigration was very similar for women and men in Ireland between 2003 and 2007, but between 2008 and 2010 the number of male emigrants exceeded the number of female emigrants, with 11,900 more male than female emigrants in 2010.
The number of male emigrants increased between 2004 and 2012, rising from 12,500 in 2004 to 48,900 in 2012 before falling back slightly to 44,900 in 2013.
The number of female emigrants has also increased since 2004, rising from 14,000 in 2004 to 44,000 by 2013.
Net migration, the number of immigrants less the number of emigrants, was positive between 2003 and 2009 but since 2010 it has turned negative. 16,700 more men left the country in 2013 than entered while 16,300 more women left the country than entered.

Ireland: Age of women at birth of first child

1.5 Ireland: Age of women at birth of first child, 1955-2011

average age in years
Year	Total births	Births within marriage	Births outside marriage
1955	27.5	27.9	23.0
1960	27.2	27.6	23.1
1965	26.2	26.6	22.9
1970	25.3	25.7	22.4
1975	24.8	25.3	21.8
1980	24.9	25.6	21.5
1985	26.0	27.2	21.8
1990	26.3	28.3	21.9
1995	27.0	29.7	22.7
2000	27.4	30.6	23.6
2005	28.7	31.4	25.1
2006	28.8	31.4	25.3
2007	28.8	31.3	25.6
2008	28.9	31.3	25.8
2009	29.1	31.4	26.2
2010	29.4	31.6	26.6
2011	29.8	32.0	27.0
Source: CSO Vital Statistics

Open in Excel: Women and Men in Ireland, 2013 Table 1.5 (XLS 12KB)

The average age at which women in Ireland gave birth to their first child fell over the period 1955-1975 from 27.5 years to 24.8 years. Since then this average age rose to 29.8 years in 2011.
The average age of women giving birth within marriage fell from 27.9 years in 1955 to 25.3 years in 1975 and has risen since then to 32 years in 2011.
A similar pattern can be observed for the average age of women giving birth outside marriage. The average age fell from 23 years in 1955 to 21.5 years in 1980 but rose to 27 years by 2011.

Show Graph - 1.5 Ireland: Age of women at birth of first child, 1955 - 2011

	Total	Within marriage	Outside marriage
1955	27.4979872796071	27.9291982105988	22.9993726474279
1956	27.4585340810363	27.8930935007636	23.1137142857143
1957	27.493230098825	27.8897113555537	23.053947368421
1958	27.6077565046637	28.0026556377884	23.2408412483039
1959	27.3966150407153	27.7738761662426	23.2051630434783
1960	27.241530443023	27.6260624421442	23.0525641025641
1961	26.9940476190476	27.3612477349211	23.2354685646501
1962	26.673614257665	27.056441767722	22.9565445026178
1963	26.5364556962025	26.8992211838006	22.9710659898477
1964	26.3031434464121	26.7102338504283	22.6086956521739
1965	26.2118095366561	26.6000147297098	22.8923138510809
1966	25.9864477367379	26.3551904406273	22.9661893396977
1967	25.8417583910857	26.2705297765822	22.3194756554307
1968	25.61927365403	25.999091163311	22.4698058950395
1969	25.4615753506774	25.8403680010552	22.4032258064516
1970	25.3244076785611	25.6801807495418	22.4232283464567
1971	25.1585495251738	25.4933655357039	22.3061224489796
1972	25.0644069508992	25.4190312569275	22.158105022831
1973	24.9752309809318	25.3582514788083	21.9372722540344
1974	24.9487310633738	25.360002169668	21.9562828475872
1975	24.8385396329559	25.2811027074427	21.8006244424621
1976	24.9676572114663	25.447125401205	21.7336322869955
1977	25.0269994525457	25.5514868309261	21.8215750615258
1978	25.0191617061052	25.5990722518977	21.5570416994493
1979	24.9432687220432	25.5517662741613	21.5208109077861
1980	24.9358194996493	25.5899170667831	21.5369643441282
1981	24.9576603034753	25.6957165244646	21.4397063417682
1982	25.1035063043151	25.9731529340225	21.445118428654
1983	25.2000426302888	26.1839963240121	21.4391279728199
1984	25.4167192429022	26.4986842970857	21.5523697302959
1985	26.0070201226621	27.1871944638436	21.8471593765711
1986	26.1178963110668	27.3973704365586	22.0031876138434
1987	26.2486865148862	27.717455720924	21.9282584884995
1988	26.402584173279	27.9879725085911	22.1233988044406
1989	26.2983592914041	28.1271965840039	21.9263565891473
1990	26.2918302326904	28.3369811932555	21.9119442854417
1991	26.3033170080142	28.4453958798709	21.9007821799014
1992	26.4010057633631	28.6792883604721	22.0595140371039
1993	26.6394172046763	29.0599455040872	22.3292091217855
1994	26.8247979231813	29.3856291329049	22.3985833869929
1995	27.0253435458437	29.6896301667875	22.6540749553837
1996	27.0021092651424	29.9497816593886	22.8572681704261
1997	27.1276415470494	30.1210307131702	23.0866713516046
1998	27.1470813397129	30.3296807592752	23.1850698174006
1999	27.1890493942218	30.5911235366067	23.3004793289395
2000	27.4	30.6	23.6
2001	27.6	30.7	23.9
2002	27.8433759801898	30.6794137094997	24.2082587814295
2003	28.1675037049234	31	24.5858715248126
2004	28.5	31.2	24.9
2005	28.7	31.4	25.1
2006	28.8	31.4	25.3
2007	28.8	31.3	25.6
2008	28.9	31.3	25.8
2009	29.1	31.4	26.2
2010	29.4	31.6	26.6
2011	29.8	32	27

EU: Age of women at birth of first child and total fertility rate

1.6 EU: Age of women at birth of first child in 2010 and total fertility rate, 2012¹

	years
Country	Average age at birth of first child, 2010	Total fertility rate, 2012	Change in TFR, 2002-2012
France	28.1	2.01	0.13
Ireland	29.4	2.01	0.04
United Kingdom	27.8	1.92	0.29
Sweden	28.9	1.91	0.26
Finland	28.3	1.80	0.08
Belgium	28.0	1.79	0.14
Denmark	29.1	1.73	0.01
Netherlands	29.4	1.72	-0.01
Lithuania	26.6	1.60	0.37
EU	:	1.58	0.13
Slovenia	28.7	1.58	0.37
Luxembourg	29.3	1.57	-0.06
Estonia	26.3	1.56	0.20
Romania	26.0	1.53	0.26
Croatia	27.7	1.51	0.09
Bulgaria	26.2	1.50	0.29
Czech Republic	27.6	1.45	0.28
Austria	28.2	1.44	0.05
Latvia	26.4	1.44	0.18
Italy	30.2	1.43	0.16
Malta	26.9	1.43	-0.02
Cyprus	28.5	1.39	-0.10
Germany	28.9	1.38	0.04
Greece	31.2	1.34	0.07
Hungary	28.2	1.34	0.04
Slovakia	27.3	1.34	0.15
Spain	29.8	1.32	0.07
Poland	26.6	1.30	0.05
Portugal	28.9	1.28	-0.18

Turkey	22.3	2.09	:
Iceland	26.8	2.04	-0.08
Norway	28.2	1.85	-0.23
Switzerland	30.2	1.52	0.12
Macedonia	26.0	1.51	0.29
Source: Eurostat, CSO Vital Statistics

¹ Data for 2008 used for Mean age at birth of first child for Luxembourg.

Open in Excel: Women and Men in Ireland, 2013 Table 1.6 (XLS 13KB)

The total fertility rate in Ireland was 2.01 in 2012, the joint highest rate in EU (along with France), and well above the EU average of 1.58.
The lowest fertility rate in the EU was in Portugal at 1.28.
The total fertility rate has increased in all EU countries between 2002 and 2012, with the exception of the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Malta, Cypus and Portugal.

EU: Gender Equality Index

1.7 EU: Gender Equality Index, 2010

Country	Overall index	Work	Money	Knowledge	Time	Power	Health
Sweden	74.3	78.6	80.2	66.3	63.9	74.3	93.1
Denmark	73.6	81.6	79.2	75.1	64.9	60.0	91.8
Finland	73.4	82.0	78.4	67.0	63.8	68.8	89.9
Netherlands	69.7	73.1	82.5	65.5	71.3	52.2	94.7
United Kingdom	60.4	76.6	74.3	68.8	43.2	35.2	95.4
Belgium	59.6	66.4	79.3	54.7	45.3	45.2	94.1
France	57.1	67.0	75.9	49.4	35.8	50.3	90.6
Slovenia	56.0	69.1	70.2	51.4	49.1	36.0	88.7
Ireland	55.2	71.0	77.0	52.8	53.4	26.5	96.4
Spain	54.0	61.3	60.7	53.5	33.8	47.2	90.7
EU 27	54.0	69.0	68.9	48.9	38.8	38.0	90.1
Germany	51.6	72.5	76.3	44.1	41.6	28.0	89.5
Luxembourg	50.7	66.4	90.9	61.1	48.9	14.7	93.9
Austria	50.4	73.9	77.9	44.6	40.0	24.3	91.6
Estonia	50.0	64.6	49.1	53.0	51.4	27.5	83.8
Czech Republic	44.4	71.6	59.3	37.3	23.2	29.6	89.6
Latvia	44.4	54.9	42.0	38.8	35.2	38.6	77.1
Poland	44.1	61.4	52.2	44.0	20.9	34.5	82.6
Lithuania	43.6	61.0	41.5	47.4	24.1	32.1	84.9
Cyprus	42.0	68.7	74.1	52.9	25.3	12.2	91.1
Malta	41.6	55.0	68.2	34.0	37.5	18.7	93.2
Hungary	41.4	55.9	54.4	35.1	32.5	24.4	83.7
Portugal	41.3	66.2	56.3	30.4	22.4	30.6	84.5
Italy	40.9	60.6	68.2	32.1	33.0	18.6	90.8
Slovakia	40.9	61.0	53.7	35.0	17.8	33.1	85.8
Greece	40.0	59.7	63.3	36.7	17.4	24.4	92.4
Bulgaria	37.0	49.9	40.7	32.0	17.3	33.8	84.5
Romania	35.3	60.4	39.0	28.8	17.8	24.9	84.0
Source: European Institute for Gender Equality

Open in Excel: Women and Men in Ireland, 2013 Table 1.7 (XLS 19KB)

The Gender Equality Index is a new composite index of gender equality compiled by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE).
On the overall Gender Equality Index, Ireland was ninth highest of the EU27 member states in 2010 with a score of 55.2 (where 1 indicates total inequality and 100 indicates gender equality). The EU27 average score was 54.
The highest scores on the overall index were for Sweden, Denmark and Finland with scores above 70. The lowest scores were in Romania and Bulgaria with scores below 40.
Ireland scored above the EU27 average on the domains of work, money, knowledge and time and had the highest score among the EU 27 member states on the health domain at 96.4.
On the domain of power, Ireland scored 26.5, the ninth lowest score and well below the EU27 average of 38.

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Ireland: Prisoners under sentence by offence group

1.8 Ireland: Prisoners under sentence by offence group, 2012

Offence group	Men	Women	Total	% women
Homicide offences	53	1	54	1.9
Sexual offences	145	2	147	1.4
Attempts/threats to murder, assaults, harassment and related offences	573	48	621	7.7
Dangerous or negligent acts	968	128	1,096	11.7
Kidnapping and related offences	21	0	21	0.0
Robbery, extortion and hijacking offences	96	8	104	7.7
Burglary and related offences	403	14	417	3.4
Theft and related offences	1,138	248	1,386	17.9
Fraud, deception and related offences	343	44	387	11.4
Controlled drug offences	856	66	922	7.2
Weapons and explosives offences	216	5	221	2.3
Damage to property and to the environment	404	66	470	14.0
Public order and other social code offences	1,656	197	1,853	10.6
Road and traffic offences	3,097	811	3,908	20.8
Government, justice procedures and organised crime offences	998	261	1,259	20.7
Offences not elsewhere classified	467	193	660	29.2
Total	11,434	2,092	13,526	15.5
		Source: Irish Prison Service

Open in Excel: Women and Men in Ireland, 2013 Table 1.8 (XLS 12KB)

There were 13,526 persons committed to prison under sentence in 2012, of whom approximately one in six were women. All prisoners committed for kidnapping and related offences were male.
Of the 54 people committed to prison for homicide offences only one was female while of the 147 committed for sexual offences only two were female. Just over a fifth (20.8%) of those committed to prison for road and traffic offences were female.
Over a quarter of men (27.1%) and over a third of women (38.8%) were committed to prison for road and traffic offences.

EU: Victims of selected crimes

1.9 EU: Victims of selected crimes, 2010¹
%
	Homicide		Serious assault		Sexual assault
Country	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female
Austria	60.6	39.4	82.3	17.7	12.5	87.5
Bulgaria	74.7	25.3	76.5	23.5	14.0	86.0
Croatia	48.5	51.5	88.0	12.0	7.2	92.8
Cyprus	53.3	46.7	85.8	14.2	6.9	93.1
Czech Republic	54.3	45.7	75.4	24.6	10.2	89.8
Denmark	:	:	72.7	27.3	8.8	91.2
Estonia	76.6	23.4	:	:	:	:
Finland	78.4	21.6	80.6	19.4	:	:
Germany	64.1	35.9	75.1	24.9	5.7	94.3
Hungary	57.9	42.1	73.2	26.8	15.9	84.1
Ireland	86.7	13.3	78.1	21.9	23.2	76.8
Italy	71.1	28.9	59.4	40.6	9.5	90.5
Lithuania	62.9	37.1	79.1	20.9	11.8	88.2
Malta	75.0	25.0	:	:	:	:
Netherlands	68.3	31.7	57.8	42.2	13.8	86.2
Romania	62.5	37.5	86.6	13.4	10.9	89.1
Slovakia	62.2	37.8	79.3	20.7	11.6	88.4
Slovenia	60.9	39.1	78.7	21.3	8.4	91.6
Spain	64.6	35.4	74.9	25.1	11.7	88.3
Sweden	68.1	31.9	78.6	21.4	:	:
United Kingdom	68.4	31.6	:	:	9.5	90.5

Turkey	77.7	22.3	:	:	11.7	88.3
Switzerland	60.0	40.0	82.6	17.4	16.6	83.4
Source: UNECE Gender statistics database

¹Reference year is 2008 for Bulgaria and Cyprus, 2009 for Ireland.

Open in Excel: Women and Men in Ireland, 2013 Table 1.9 (XLS 14KB)

The majority of homicide and serious assault victims were male in all the reporting countries in 2010, with the sole exception of homicide victims in Croatia.

The majority of sexual assault victims were female in all the reporting countries.

In Ireland 86.7% of victims of homicide and 78.1% of victims of serious assault were male, while just over three-quarters (76.8%) of victims of sexual assault were female.

When examining this data it should be taken into account that levels of reporting of particular crimes may vary across countries.

Ireland: Murder/Manslaughter recorded by age of victim

1.10 Ireland: Murder/Manslaughter recorded by age of victim, 2008 and 2013

				number
	2008		2013
Age	Men	Women	Men	Women
0-20	4	1	3	3
21-30	19	2	7	2
31-40	11	4	12	3
41-50	4	2	11	0
51 & over	7	1	10	3
Total	45	10	43	11
Source: CSO Crime Statistics

Open in Excel: Women and Men in Ireland, 2013 Table 1.10 (XLS 12KB)

There were 54 victims of murder/manslaughter in Ireland in 2013 of which 43 were men.
12 male victims of murder/manslaugher were aged between 31 and 40, 11 were aged between 41 and 50 while 10 were aged 51 and over.
In contrast, in 2008 over four out of every ten male victims of murder/manslaughter were aged between 21 and 30 years of age.

Ireland: Means of travel to work

1.11 Ireland: Means of travel to work, 2002 and 2011

% of usual residents aged 15 & over at work
	2002		2011
Means of travel	Men	Women	Men	Women
On foot	8.8	15.1	7.8	11.5
Bicycle	2.8	1.2	3.1	1.3
Bus, minibus or coach	5.1	8.9	4.1	6.3
Train, DART or LUAS	1.8	2.4	2.7	3.2
Motor cycle or scooter	1.6	0.3	0.8	0.1
Motor car: Driver	52.9	58.1	54.9	65.7
Motor car: Passenger	5.6	8.4	2.7	5.2
Other means (incl. lorry or van)	11.8	0.5	13.6	0.4
Work mainly at or from home	7.7	3.7	6.3	2.9
Not stated	1.9	1.4	3.8	3.4
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Source: CSO Census of Population

Open in Excel: Women and Men in Ireland, 2013 Table 1.11 (XLS 13KB)

In 2002, 52.9% of men and 58.1% of women in employment drove a car to work. By 2011 these proportions had risen to 54.9% of men and 65.7% of women.
The proportion of women travelling to work as a passenger in a car decreased from 8.4% in 2002 to 5.2% in 2011.
In 2011, 11.5% of women walked to work compared to 7.8% of men while 1.3% of women cycled to work compared to 3.1% of men.

Ireland: Time taken to travel to work

1.12 Ireland: Time taken to travel to work, 2011

% of usual residents aged 15 and over at work¹
Time taken	Men	Women
Less than ¼ of an hour	23.9	26.8
¼ of an hour to less than ½ an hour	28.7	32.9
½ an hour to less than ¾ of an hour	21.2	20.3
¾ of an hour to less than 1 hour	7.3	7.3
1 hour to less than 1½ hours	7.5	5.7
1½ hours and more	2.9	1.7
Not stated	8.6	5.2
Total	100.0	100.0
Source: CSO Census of Population

¹ Excludes persons working mainly at or from home.

Open in Excel: Women and Men in Ireland,2013 Table 1.12 (XLS 11KB)

Over half of men (52.6%) and nearly six out of ten women (59.7%) had a travel time to work of less than 30 minutes in 2011.
Just over one in ten men (10.4%) and 7.4% of women had a journey time to work which was longer than one hour.

Ireland: Road fatalities by road user type

1.13 Ireland: Road fatalities¹ by road user type, 2011

			number	%
Road user	Male	Female	Total	% female
Car driver	42	23	65	35.4
Car passenger	15	15	30	50.0
Pedestrian	33	14	47	29.8
Pedal cyclist	9	0	9	0.0
Motor cyclist	17	1	18	5.6
Other road user	14	3	17	17.6
Total	130	56	186	30.1
	Source: Road Safety Authority
¹ Collisions omitted where sex of casualty was not specified.

Open in Excel: Women and Men in Ireland,2013 Table 1.13 (XLS 12KB)

Seven out of ten (69.9%) of the 186 people who died on Irish roads in 2011 were male.
All pedal cyclists who died in road traffic accidents in 2011 were male while of the 18 motor cyclists killed on the roads, only one was female.
Just over a third (35.4%) of car drivers killed on the roads in Ireland in 2011 were female while half of car passengers who died in road traffic accidents were female.

Show Graph - 1.13 Ireland: Road fatalities by road user type, 2011

	Men	Women
Total	130	56
Pedestrian	33	14
Car driver	42	23
Car passenger	15	15
Other road user	14	3
Motor cyclist	17	1
Pedal cyclist	9	0

Ireland: Road fatalities

1.14 Ireland: Road fatalities¹, 2001-2011
			number	%
Year	Male	Female	Total	% female
2001	304	103	407	25.3
2002	260	101	361	28.0
2003	246	79	325	24.3
2004	259	102	361	28.3
2005	286	102	388	26.3
2006	262	97	359	27.0
2007	250	85	335	25.4
2008	199	75	274	27.4
2009	182	56	238	23.5
2010	161	46	207	22.2
2011	130	56	186	30.1
	Source: Road Safety Authority
¹ Collisions omitted where sex of casualty was not specified.

Open in Excel: Women and Men in Ireland 2013, Table 1.14 (XLS 12KB)

There has been a large decrease in the total number of road fatalities in Ireland between 2001 and 2011. In 2001, 407 people died on Irish roads but by 2011 this figure had dropped by more than half to 186.
The number of male fatalities dropped from 304 to 130 between 2001 and 2011, a decrease of 57.2% while the number of female fatalities dropped from 103 to 56 over the same time period, a decrease of 45.6%.

Show Graph - 1.14 Ireland: road fatalities

	Men	Women
2001	304	103
2002	260	101
2003	246	79
2004	259	102
2005	286	102
2006	262	97
2007	250	85
2008	199	75
2009	182	56
2010	161	46
2011	130	56

Ireland: Road casualties by age of victim

1.15 Ireland: Road casualties¹ by age of victim, 2011

				number
	Male		Female
Age Group	Fatalities	Injuries	Fatalities	Injuries
0-17	11	537	6	374
18-24	30	867	9	622
25-44	57	1,557	14	1,103
45-64	14	692	8	555
65 & over	18	270	19	260
Unknown	0	46	0	22
Total	130	3,969	56	2,936
Source: Road Safety Authority

1 Collisions omitted where sex of casualty was not specified.

Open in Excel: Women and Men in Ireland, 2013 Table 1.15 (XLS 12KB)

In 2011 more than four out of ten (43.8%) male fatalities on Irish roads were in the 25 to 44 age group while nearly one quarter (23.1%) were aged 18 to 24.
Just over a third (33.9%) of female fatalities on Irish roads in 2011 were aged 65 and over while a quarter were aged 25-44.

Ireland: Current driving licences by age of holder

1.16 Ireland: Current driving licences by age of holder, 2013
		%		%
	Full licence		Provisional licence
Age group	Men	Women	Men	Women
20 & under	1.5	1.1	26.8	21.1
21-29	13.0	13.5	35.1	38.7
30-39	22.5	24.9	22.9	23.5
40-49	21.4	22.4	9.9	9.0
50-59	17.8	17.8	3.7	4.3
60-69	14.0	12.5	1.3	2.4
70-79	7.4	6.0	0.2	0.8
80 & over	2.3	1.7	0.1	0.1
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Number of current licences	1,295,295	1,119,098	109,727	117,470
Source: Road Safety Authority

Open in Excel: Women and Men in Ireland, 2013 Table 1.16 (XLS 12KB)

In 2013 more than half (53.6%) of full driving licences were held by men.
There were more men than women with a full driving licence in all age groups.
In 2013 more than half (51.7%) of provisional driving licences were held by women and about six in ten of men and women with provisional licences were aged under 30 years of age.

Show Graph - 1.16 Ireland: Current driving licences by age of holder, 2013

	Males	Females
Total	1295294.87711529	1119098.12187732
20 & under	19498	12136
21-29	168784	151609
30-39	292016.51176917	278584.488229078
40-49	276957.049000261	251080.950992163
50-59	230547	199151
60-69	181719	140179
70-79	95496	67540
80 & over	30277.3163458601	18817.682656075

Women and Men in Ireland 2013

Society

Ireland: Population by age group

EU: Men per 100 women

Ireland: Migration by age group

Ireland: Migration

Ireland: Age of women at birth of first child

EU: Age of women at birth of first child and total fertility rate

EU: Gender Equality Index

Ireland: Prisoners under sentence by offence group

EU: Victims of selected crimes

Ireland: Murder/Manslaughter recorded by age of victim

Ireland: Means of travel to work

Ireland: Time taken to travel to work

Ireland: Road fatalities by road user type

Ireland: Road fatalities

Ireland: Road casualties by age of victim

Ireland: Current driving licences by age of holder

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