Ireland Employment Rate
The share of people aged 15-64 who are actually in work, regardless of whether others are looking.
74.4%
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Q2 1999 to Q2 2026
Source: FRED series LREM64TTIEQ156S · OECD, ages 15-64, seasonally adjusted, quarterly.
Ireland Employment Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Ireland, the employment rate fell by 0.3pp over the year to Q2 2026, from 74.7% in Q2 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 68.8% in Q2 2021 to 75.0% in Q1 2025.
Its average since Q2 1999 is 67.1%, and the latest reading is above that.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- OECD via FRED
- Series
- LREM64TTIEQ156S
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Q2 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Data refreshed 2026-11-06. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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