Statistics
County Clare, County Limerick and North Tipperary as part of the Mid-West region with a population of 360,000 has a GVA of €10.7bn(2005).
GVA per capita(2005) in Greater Dublin is €42,435, while GVA in the Mid-West is €30,423, which means that the MW region has the third highest GVA per capita in Ireland.
Most of the industry in the Mid-West is concentrated around the Limerick urban area and the Shannon Free Zone, centred on the Limerick Suburban Rail network.
The main urban centres in the region are the Limerick urban area with almost 100,000, then Ennis (25,000), Shannon (9,000), Nenagh (9,000), Thurles (8,000), Newcastle-West (7,000).
Limerick is the second largest city in the province of Munster and Ireland's third largest city according to the 2011 census carried out by the CSO.
Here are some of the companies within this area:
- Dell
- Analog Devices
- Kostal
- Vistakon(Johnson & Johnson)
- Roche
- Olympus
- Procter & Gamble
- Banta
- Intel
- GE Capital Services
There are two main third-level institutions, University of Limerick and Limerick Institute of Technology which have a combined population of over 20,000 students.
Read more about this topic: Economy Of Limerick
Famous quotes containing the word statistics:
“and Olaf, too
preponderatingly because
unless statistics lie he was
more brave than me: more blond than you.”
—E.E. (Edward Estlin)
“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination.”
—Andrew Lang (1844–1912)
“Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about “character issues.” Either that or just go ahead and determine the presidency with three-legged races and pie-eating contests. It would make better TV.”
—P.J. (Patrick Jake)