Country overview: Ireland - Drug use among the general
population and young people - Problem drug use - Treatment
demand - Drug-related infectious diseases - Drug-related deaths
- Treatment responses - Harm reduction responses - Drug markets
and drug-law offences - National drug laws - National drug
strategy - Coordination mechanism in the field of drugs - Public
expenditure - Drug-related research |Year||Ireland||EU (27
countries)||Source| |Population||2012||4 582 769 p ||503 663 601
b p||Eurostat| |Population by age classes||15–24||2012||12.2 %
p||11.7 % b p||Eurostat| |25–49||38.1 % p||35.4 % b p|
|50–64||16.2 % p||19.5 % b p| |GDP per capita in PPS (Purchasing
Power Standards) 1||2011||129||100||Eurostat| |Total expenditure
on social protection (% of GDP) 2||2010||29.6 % p||29.4 %
p||Eurostat| |Unemployment rate 3||2012||14.7 %||10.5
%||Eurostat| |Unemployment rate of population aged under 25
years||2012||30.4 %||22.8 %||Eurostat| |Prison population rate
(per 100 000 of national population) 4||2011||93.1|