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SDG 8

Decent Work and Economic Growth

Promote sustained, inclusive economic growth and decent work.

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Ireland: SDG achieved· On track or maintaining SDG achievement

Official figures from the Sustainable Development Report 2026 (Sachs, Lafortune, Fuller, Iablonovski — SDSN), shown as published — only the layout is ours. The report is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. This site is not affiliated with or endorsed by SDSN. Imported from their published database on 2026-09-21.

What this goal covers

  • •Sustain per-person economic growth appropriate to each country
  • •Raise economic productivity through diversification and innovation
  • •Achieve full, productive employment and decent work, with equal pay for equal work

Simplified from the UN's official targets for this goal.

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Goal 8 score, by country

Ireland Other countries
1Macao SAR, China
90.1/100
2Ireland
89.2/100
3Switzerland
89/100
4Japan
88.8/100
5Malta
86.8/100
···
176Syrian Arab Republic
18.8/100
177Somalia, Fed. Rep.
16.9/100
178Haiti
15.9/100
179Afghanistan
14.6/100
180South Sudan
8/100

Ireland is in rank group 2 of 180 (out of 180 countries with a score for this goal).

What makes up Ireland's score (89 out of 100)

The average of 8 indicator scores, one per official target area. Each bar scores Ireland from 0 to 100 on that indicator: the best 10% of countries count as 100, the worst 5% as 0.

  • 8.1 Economic growth · GDP per capita growth10.5% a year (2025)
    100
  • 8.6 Youth · Youth not in education, employment or training5.7% (2024)
    100
  • 8.2 Productivity · Output per worker (GDP per person employed)259,304 2021 PPP $ (2025)
    100
  • 8.10 Financial access · Adults with a bank or mobile-money account98.3% (2024)
    100
  • 8.3 Decent job quality · Vulnerable employment9.6% of employment (2025)
    96
  • 8.8 Safe workplaces · Fatal workplace injuries1.4 per 100,000 workers (2023)
    93
  • 8.5 Full employment · Unemployment rate4.6% (2025)
    85
  • 8.10 Access to banking · Commercial bank branches13.1 per 100,000 adults (2022)
    39

1 other indicator for this goal has no recent data for Ireland, so it isn't in the average.

Simplified score, may contain errors. See how it's built

Chart data: World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0) and the UN SDG Global Database (UNdata terms). Each goal score (0–100, 100 = best) averages a country's scores on several official indicators, one per main target area of the goal (9 for this goal). Each indicator is scored against a range set by the data: the best 10% of countries count as 100, the worst 5% as 0. Latest value per country since 2010; fetched 2026-09-22. The scores are calculated by this site; the underlying values are the sources', unchanged. How the scores are built → Caution: GDP per capita growth — One year's growth is volatile.

County-level data isn't published for this goal yet — Ireland's CSO currently only breaks a handful of SDG indicators down by county.

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