SDG 9

Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

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Ireland: SDG achieved· Moderately improving

Official figures from the Sustainable Development Report 2026 (Sachs, Lafortune, Fuller, Iablonovski — SDSN), shown as published — only the layout is ours. The report is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. This site is not affiliated with or endorsed by SDSN. Imported from their published database on 2026-09-29.

What makes up this score

The real, underlying figures 🇮🇪 Ireland's SDSN score for this goal is built from — not the 0-100 score itself, the actual measurements behind it.

Rural population with access to all-season roads (%): 99.9
Population using the internet (%): 97.2
Mobile broadband subscriptions (per 100 population): 120.1
Logistics Performance Index: Infrastructure Score (worst 1-5 best): 3.5
Score of top 3 universities in Times Higher Education (worst 0-100 best): 57.8
Articles published in academic journals (per 1,000 population): 3.7
Expenditure on research and development (% of GDP): 1.6
Total patent applications by applicant's origin (per million population): 1455.2
Researchers (per 1,000 employed population): 11.1
Female share of graduates from STEM fields at the tertiary level (%): 36
E-government: Online Services Index (worst 0-1 best): 0.9

What this goal covers

•Develop quality, reliable, resilient infrastructure for all
•Promote inclusive, sustainable industrialisation
•Boost scientific research and innovation, especially in developing countries

Simplified from the UN's official targets for this goal.

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Goal 9 score, by country

Compare with

Ireland Other countries

1Liechtenstein

99.4/100

2Switzerland

99.1/100

3Korea, Rep.

98.5/100

4Japan

97/100

5Austria

94.8/100

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14Ireland

87.2/100

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163Chad

17.3/100

164Burkina Faso

16.7/100

165Papua New Guinea

14.7/100

166Gambia, The

10.8/100

167Yemen, Rep.

8.8/100

Ireland is in rank group 14 of 167 (out of 167 countries with a score for this goal).

What makes up Ireland's score (87 out of 100)

The average of 7 indicator scores, one per official target area. Each bar scores Ireland from 0 to 100 on that indicator: the best 10% of countries count as 100, the worst 5% as 0.

9.2 Industrialisation · Manufacturing value added33.9% of GDP (2025)
100
9.b Advanced industry · Medium and high-tech share of manufacturing54.3% (2022)
100
9.4 Clean industry · CO2 emissions per unit of manufacturing output0 kg CO2 per $ (2023)
100
9.c Mobile access · Population covered by a 4G mobile network99.8% (2024)
100
9.5 Researchers · Researchers in R&D5,753 per million people (2023)
97
9.5 Research spending · Research and development spending1.6% of GDP (2023)
61
9.3 Small-business finance · Small industries with a loan or credit line35.6% (2024)
52

Not covered: Road and transport access (9.1) and development aid for infrastructure (9.a) have no usable country-level data.

Simplified score, may contain errors. See how it's built

Chart data: World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0) and the UN SDG Global Database (UNdata terms). Each goal score (0–100, 100 = best) averages a country's scores on several official indicators, one per main target area of the goal (7 for this goal). Each indicator is scored against a range set by the data: the best 10% of countries count as 100, the worst 5% as 0. Latest value per country since 2010; fetched 2026-09-22. The scores are calculated by this site; the underlying values are the sources', unchanged. Not covered: Road and transport access (9.1) and development aid for infrastructure (9.a) have no usable country-level data. How the scores are built →

Manufacturing value added (WB NV.IND.MANF.ZS; 9.2 Industrialisation)
Research and development spending (WB GB.XPD.RSDV.GD.ZS; 9.5 Research spending)
Researchers in R&D (WB SP.POP.SCIE.RD.P6; 9.5 Researchers)
Population covered by a 4G mobile network (UN IT_MOB_4GNTWK; 9.c Mobile access)
Medium and high-tech share of manufacturing (WB NV.MNF.TECH.ZS.UN; 9.b Advanced industry)
CO2 emissions per unit of manufacturing output (UN EN_ATM_CO2MVA; 9.4 Clean industry)
Small industries with a loan or credit line (UN FC_ACC_SSID; 9.3 Small-business finance)

County-level data isn't published for this goal yet — Ireland's CSO currently only breaks a handful of SDG indicators down by county.

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