JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE - EU SCIENCE - 58% of jobs in Ireland depend on extra-EU exports

Irish companies’ exports outside the EU were worth €251 billion in 2019, and kept 1.3 million Irish workers busy, according to the new report on Trade and Jobs of the European Commission. This means that 58% of jobs in the Country depend on extra-EU exports, a very high rate compared to other EU Countries.

date: 09/02/2022

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Almost seven out of ten of these jobs are in the services sector. In addition, Irish extra-EU exports also support over 490.000 jobs in other EU Countries.

The new report, released by JRC and Directorate General for Trade, provides statistics on the European jobs connected to European exports. It shows how important trade has become for European jobs, with EU exports currently supporting over 38 million jobs.

The report uses reliable and comparable statistics to understand how global trade flows affect employment in the EU. The two main novelties of this report are the re-estimation of all trade and jobs figures for the EU27 and calculating the trade and jobs figures for the year 2019.