Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 23 January 2024
250. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the business start-up rates among men, women, young people and migrants for each of the years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, and how this compares with the EU and OECD averages in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2819/24]
View answerThe data sets in question are not fully available in the manner requested by the Deputy. However, the following information represents the latest data available to my Department.
The most comparable statistics available are those included in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitoring (GEM) Report. This report includes a statistic on “New business owners” which is broken down by gender at national level. The reports do not include a breakdown in terms of young people and migrants. Of the years requested for comparison, Ireland participated in GEM in 2018, 2019 and 2021. The report provides comparable figures to an overall EU or OECD average for the years available (based only on participants in the year in question).
The statistics for the categories requested for the years available are set out in tabular form below:
|
Category |
Startup Rate |
Startup Rate |
Startup Rate |
|
2018 |
2019 |
2021 |
|
|
Ireland Men |
4% |
6% |
5.8% |
|
Ireland Women |
2.5% |
2.7% |
4% |
|
EU Average |
3.2% |
n/a |
3.3% |
|
OECD Average |
n/a |
4.4% |
n/a |
