This publication is categorised as a CSO Frontier Series Output. Particular care must be taken when interpreting the statistics in this release as it may use new methods which are under development and/or data sources which may be incomplete, for example new administrative data sources.
Money flowing into Ireland has almost doubled over the period from €115.4bn in 2019 to €229.5bn in 2025. Inflows were largely driven by the sale of goods1, which was €211.5bn in 2025, just over double that of €105.0bn in 2019. Over the period 2019 - 2025, the sale of goods consistently amounted to more than 90% of total inflows each year.
The total inflows from the sale of goods relating to international trade was €164.2bn in 2025. Despite some fluctuations over the period, this is an increase of 86.2% compared to the value of €88.2bn in 2019.
Between 2019 and 2024 the value of goods relating to international trade going to the US and the EU27 were largely similar. However, the proportion going to the US in 2025 was a large increase on previous years, from close to 40% in other years to 58.1% in 2025.
Total outflows doubled from €94.1bn in 2019 to €187.7bn in 2025. These outflows consisted largely of purchases of goods and services, which contributed €52.3bn (27.8%) and €74.6bn (39.7%) respectively, to total outflows in 2025. Outflows for the purchase of goods doubled and services increased by 66.3% between 2019 and 2025. Other flows (which consists of depreciation, tax and other costs), grew by the largest percentage (168%) over the period from €19.7bn in 2019 to €52.8bn in 2025.
1The term 'Goods' in the context of inflows and outflows refers to the goods relating to international trade, goods for processing and merchanting.
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