During the fourth quarter of 2022, road traffic accidents and casualties increased when compared to the same quarter of the previous year. Road traffic fatalities amounted to seven.
Provisional estimates indicate that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for 2022 amounted to €16,870.3 million, registering an increase of €1,868.4 million, or 12.5 per cent, when compared to 2021. In volume terms, GDP rose by 6.9 per cent.
Nine out of 10 persons aged between 16 and 74 years used the internet in 2022.
Main points
● In January 2023, the annual rate of inflation as measured by the RPI was 6.94 per cent, down from the 7.35 per cent in December 2022 (Table 2).
● The 12-month moving average rate for January stood at 6.41 per cent (Table 2).
● The largest upward impact on annual inflation was
The seasonally adjusted monthly unemployment rate for January 2023 stood at 3.0 per cent, up by 0.1 percentage points when compared with the previous month.
By the end of January 2023, the Government’s Consolidated Fund reported a deficit of €120.9 million.
- SHORT-TERM INDUSTRIAL INDICATORS: Q4/2022
- RESIDENTIAL BUILDING PERMITS: Q4/2022
- OUTBOUND TOURISM: Q4/2022
- Registered Employment: September 2022
- RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS: JANUARY 2023
- INDEX OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION: DECEMBER 2022
- UNEMPLOYMENT RATE: DECEMBER 2022
- EXPENDITURE OF GENERAL GOVERNMENT SECTOR BY FUNCTION: 2021
- ICT usage and e-commerce in Enterprises: 2022
- Retail Price Index (RPI): December 2022