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  • President:Michael D. Higgins
  • Chief Justice:Donal O'Donnell
  • Capital city:Dublin
  • Languages:English (official, the language generally used), Irish (Gaelic or Gaeilge) (official, spoken by approximately 38.7% of the population as a first or second language in 2011; mainly spoken in areas along the western coast)
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  • National statistics office
  • Population, persons:5,282,610 (2025)
  • Area, sq km:68,890
  • GDP per capita, US$:103,888 (2023)
  • GDP, billion current US$:551.4 (2023)
  • GINI index:30.1 (2021)
  • Ease of Doing Business rank:24

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    • Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker (discontinued)
      September 2023
      Source: University of Oxford
      Uploaded by: Knoema
      Accessed On: 17 September, 2023
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      University of Oxford baseline measure of variation in governments’ responses is the COVID-19 Government Response Stringency Index. This composite measure is a simple additive score of seven indicators measured on an ordinal scale, rescaled to vary from 0 to 100. Please note that this measure is for comparative purposes only, and should not necessarily be interpreted as rating of the appropriateness or effectiveness of a country's response.   Data cited at: Hale, Thomas and Samuel Webster (2020). Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker. Data use policy: Creative Commons Attribution CC BY standard.