Should note BoP estimates suffer from measurement changes, errors & omissions. But enough about 2024 data. These caveats apply to data from the 1800s as well.

Current account balance estimates (% GDP) of the United Kingdom by component since 1800. Source: World Historical BoP Database wbop.world#data

Global trade exports (% of world GDP) from 1800-2025. Source: Nievas & Piketty's Historical BoP Database wbop.world#data

Great course if you're interested in Irish economic history - learnt a lot last year - highly recommend!

So shocked Conor Gearty has died

He was a fearless lawyer, teacher and writer

He was also one of the wittiest, smartest people you’d ever meet. It was an honour to call him a friend

I will miss him, terribly. Thoughts with his family, in London and Longford

www.matrixlaw.co.uk/news/profess...

Population of the Republic of Ireland was 5.5 million in April 2025, according to latest CSO estimates www.cso.ie/en/releasesa...

Population of Ireland (5.44m) is now the 18th highest in the European Union overtaking Slovakia (5.42m), according to latest Eurostat estimates ec.europa.eu/eurostat/dat...

Irish-born population living in Ireland and abroad by county/state in 1870/71. Largest population were in New York (528,806), Cork (501,664) and Antrim (391,816).

Estimated populations from-Ireland-living-abroad and from-abroad-living-in-Ireland by destination/origin from 1990-2024

Number of people from the Republic of Ireland living abroad was around 714,000 in 2024, according to latest UN migrant stock estimates www.un.org/development/...

Irish independent Friday, December 4, 1987.

Scrap useless Seanad.

Young accept bleak future here.

Pressure grows to quit work early.

Cigarette sales start to level off.

At least we'd qualified for Euro 88 a few weeks before! Interesting the concern for finding work for all the young people in the years ahead. Not unreasonable given the economy's state. And the fact Irish population pyramid (like many developing countries today) actually looked like a pyramid.

Ireland's GDP and NNI per capita as a % of the world average from 1970-2023. (Source: WID) wid.world/data/

The composition of the global population by income and poverty line groups in 1990 and 2024 www.worldbank.org/en/publicati...

The 2024 Irish general election is only days away.

But how did your area vote in 2020? And how does that look with the new constituency boundaries?

Find out more here ianrichardson.shinyapps.io/GE2020_Resul... with this interactive map of 1st preference votes.

Nothing odd at all here! Worth listening to this very interesting discussion. bsky.app/profile/weis...

Current & future retirement ages for a man with a full career from age 22 in OECD countries www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Female share of household labour income over the past three decades in the UK - @resfoundation.bsky.social www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...

Share of foreign-trained doctors & nurses in European countries in 2023 www.oecd.org/en/publicati...