Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) had 99.8% active enterprises with 68.4% persons engaged, which generated 41.9% turnover and gross value added (GVA) of 34.5% in 2020
In 2020, there were 18,743 enterprise births while in 2019, 17,405 enterprises ceased trading
The Top 50 enterprises in the non-financial business economy by GVA, accounted for 59.7% of total GVA, 46.4% of total turnover, despite having just 5.5% of total persons engaged
Foreign-owned multinationals in Ireland had 457,990 persons engaged with a combined turnover of €581.9 billion
Irish multinationals abroad had 1,200,342 persons engaged in foreign affiliates and generated turnover of €237.7 billion in 2020
The Services sector had the highest number of persons engaged with 807,781 (47.4%), followed by Distribution with 372,853 (21.9%), and Industry with 260,660 (15.3%) persons engaged
The Construction and Financial & Insurance sectors accounted for 157,349 (9.2%) and 104,241 (6.1%) persons engaged respectively
