Ireland's life expectancy rose from 75.5 yrs in 1995 to 83.0 yrs in 2024.
Ireland · Health
Longevity, mortality, health system capacity and risk factors.
23 indicators · 23 with data
Ireland's healthy life expectancy at birth rose from 66.3 yrs in 2000 to 70.0 yrs in 2021.
Ireland's infant mortality fell from 6.1 ‰ in 1995 to 3.4 ‰ in 2024.
Ireland's under-5 mortality rate fell from 7.3 ‰ in 1995 to 3.9 ‰ in 2024.
Ireland's maternal mortality ratio fell from 9.0 /100k in 1994 to 4.0 /100k in 2023.
Ireland's ncd mortality fell from 17.7 % in 2000 to 9.6 % in 2021.
Ireland's suicide mortality rate fell from 12.5 /100k in 2000 to 8.6 /100k in 2021.
Ireland's mortality caused by road traffic injury fell from 11.4 /100k in 2000 to 3.1 /100k in 2019.
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- Health spendingup +0.3 pts21st of 22
- Current health expenditure per capita (current US$)up +7.5 %3rd of 22
- Out-of-pocket expenditure (% of current health expenditure)down −0.7 pts3rd of 22
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- Physiciansup +15.3 %12th of 63
- Nurses and midwivesup +4.9 %3rd of 79
- Hospital bedsup +0.7 %36th of 75
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- Immunization, measles (% of children ages 12–23 months)up +1.0 pts92nd of 192
- Immunization, DPT (% of children ages 12–23 months)down −1.0 pts86th of 192
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- Prevalence of HIV (ages 15–49)unchanged +0.0 pts43rd of 148
- Incidence of tuberculosisup +29.2 %42nd of 208
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- Safe drinking waterup +0.5 pts49th of 148
- Safe sanitationup +0.2 pts48th of 141