Ireland economic indicators
The Irish figures the Central Statistics Office publishes as a time series, in one table — prices, GDP, labour, retail, trade, housing and population. 22 series · newest reading Aug 2026 · each series carries its own period and its own CSO release date.
Source: Central Statistics Office
Inflation rate
Source: Central Statistics Office · series CPM24 CPM24C03 · 60 published readings held, Sep 2021 to Aug 2026 · released 2026-09-10 · Open the source table · Year-on-year change in the Consumer Price Index, all items.
Change pills and trend lines show direction only — teal for a rise, red for a fall — and are not a view on whether a move helps or hurts you. Figures are reproduced from the Central Statistics Office without adjustment; nothing here is estimated, smoothed or interpolated. Release schedules differ, so the periods in the last column are not all the same: the freshest series here runs to Aug 2026 and the slowest to 2026. Always check the official release before relying on a figure.
One table, one source, no estimates
Every figure below is reproduced exactly as the Central Statistics Office published it. Money Snap adds no forecasts, no seasonal adjustment of its own and no gap filling.
Irish GDP is not the domestic economy
Ireland hosts a large multinational sector whose accounting flows through the national accounts, so headline GDP overstates what is happening to people living here. The CSO publishes modified domestic demand precisely to strip that out, and it is in the overview above for that reason. Read the two together rather than either alone.
Each series is dated on its own
The CSO releases on different schedules, and unlike some agencies it publishes a genuine release timestamp for each table. Prices and the monthly unemployment estimate land within weeks; the national accounts and the labour force survey follow the quarter; the population estimate is annual. The period column shows what each figure refers to.
Colour means direction, not judgement
Teal marks a rise on the previous published reading and red marks a fall. Whether that is welcome depends entirely on your position — higher property price growth helps an owner and hurts a first-time buyer — so the colour never implies good or bad.
Where these figures show up
Several of these series feed the Money Snap calculators directly. Open the one that matches what you are working out.
Common questions
Every series is pulled straight from the Central Statistics Office PxStat service, the CSO’s own machine-readable interface. Each row records the CSO table it came from and links back to it, so any figure can be checked at source in one click.
An automated job re-reads the CSO and rewrites a figure only when a newer period has been published for it. If nothing has moved, nothing on the page changes. The CSO publishes a release timestamp for each table, so these rows carry a genuine release date rather than the date the page happened to run.
Because for most questions about the Irish economy it is the more honest number. Irish GDP includes the output and asset flows of multinationals domiciled here, which can move the headline by several percentage points without anything changing for households or domestic firms. Modified domestic demand is the CSO’s own measure designed to exclude those distortions. GDP sits in the overview beside it, and GNP and GDP at current prices are one tab away, so the two readings can be compared rather than one replacing the other.
The Consumer Price Index is the domestic Irish measure. The Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices is built to a common European definition so that inflation can be compared across the euro area, and it is the measure the European Central Bank looks at. They cover slightly different baskets, most notably in how housing costs are treated, so the two rates usually differ by a few tenths.
The Residential Tenancies Board publishes the rent index most commonly quoted in Ireland, but it releases it as spreadsheets and per-chart files rather than through a data service, so there is no machine-readable series to read automatically. The figure shown here is the actual rent component of the Consumer Price Index, which the CSO does publish as a series. It measures rent inflation rather than an average rent level.
Yes, routinely. The national accounts and trade figures are commonly restated as fuller data arrives, and indices are periodically rebased to a newer reference year. A number shown here reflects the most recent release Money Snap has read; earlier periods may since have been revised.
This page carries economic statistics — what the economy did. A rates page carries the rates that price your own money: the European Central Bank policy rates, EURIBOR and Irish mortgage and deposit rates. Those come from the ECB rather than the CSO, and they are kept separate for that reason.
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Official data sources
Every figure above is dated individually by its CSO reference period and carries the CSO’s own release date for that table. Those dates differ by series, so no single verification date applies to the whole page.