What do Irish people think about arms sales?
Force axis · 🇮🇪 Ireland · measured continuously, published only above 100 responses.
No published Irish reading yet. DataRadio holds 0 Irish answers on this question and publishes a nation only at 100, so the honest answer today is that we do not know — 100 more answers are needed. The world reading is below, and it takes about a minute to make this page say something.
Where Ireland sits on force
What is measured about Ireland on this axis. These are facts about the country, not what its people think about them — that is the part of this page waiting on a sample.
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Military spending
SIPRI · 2024
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0.2% |
among the lowest in the world
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Trade openness
World Bank national accounts · 2025
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240.0% |
among the highest in the world
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Ranked against every country with a published figure for the same series. Sources: World Bank World Development Indicators, which republish UN, ILO, UNESCO, WHO, SIPRI, IISS and UNODC data.
The questions that bear on arms sales
Asked as a forced choice between two written positions, in randomised order, with the sides flipped for half of respondents.
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A · We should not sell arms to countries at war.
B · Selling arms is how friends stay able to defend themselves.
World, unweighted: 41% A ·
27% neither ·
32% B · n = 1693
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🇮🇪 n=0 of 100 |
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A · Sending arms into a war makes it last longer and kills more people.
B · When a country is invaded, sending it arms is the right thing to do.
World, unweighted: 44% A ·
24% neither ·
32% B · n = 3971
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🇮🇪 n=0 of 100 |
A national figure appears only once that nation clears 100 responses on the question. The world column is a raw count of every answer received and is not post-stratified — it is shown because withholding it would say less, not more.
Asked another way
The same question, as people put it.
- Ireland public opinion on arms sales
- Arms sales poll ireland
- What do irish people think about arms sales
- What percentage of irish people support arms sales
Each has one answer on this page, and it is the same answer.