What do Irish people think about universal basic income?
Economic 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 economic
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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Income inequality (Gini)
World Bank PovcalNet/PIP · 2023
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29 0–100 |
lower than most countries
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Unemployment
ILO modelled estimate · 2025
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4.6% |
close to the middle
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Income per person
World Bank / ICP · 2025
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$131,338 |
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 universal basic income
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 · Money from the state should go to people who work, or who clearly need it.
B · The state should pay everyone enough to live on, with no strings.
World, unweighted: 24% A ·
20% neither ·
56% B · n = 4775
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🇮🇪 n=0 of 100 |
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A · If machines take the jobs, people must retrain and move on.
B · If machines take the jobs, the state must guarantee an income.
World, unweighted: 24% A ·
23% neither ·
52% B · n = 4736
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🇮🇪 n=0 of 100 |
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Asked another way
The same question, as people put it.
- Ireland public opinion on universal basic income
- Universal basic income poll ireland
- What do irish people think about universal basic income
- What percentage of irish people support universal basic income
Each has one answer on this page, and it is the same answer.