Shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — Production in Ireland
Ireland: Shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — Production was 14,436 t in 2017. ▲ Rising
Shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — Production in Ireland, 1961–2017
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
The most recent figure for shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — production in Ireland is 14,436 t, measured in 2017.
The figure is up 0.7% on the previous year and up 11.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — production in Ireland peaked at 18,000 t in 1991 and was at its lowest, 8,000 t, in 1982.
Ireland ranks 23rd of 100 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 57 years of available data.
Shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — Production in Ireland, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 11,325 t | — |
| 1962 | 11,927 t | +5.3% |
| 1963 | 11,878 t | -0.4% |
| 1964 | 11,600 t | -2.3% |
| 1965 | 11,800 t | +1.7% |
| 1966 | 11,600 t | -1.7% |
| 1967 | 10,200 t | -12.1% |
| 1968 | 10,200 t | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 9,714 t | -4.8% |
| 1970 | 9,725 t | +0.1% |
| 1971 | 10,726 t | +10.3% |
| 1972 | 10,247 t | -4.5% |
| 1973 | 9,967 t | -2.7% |
| 1974 | 10,290 t | +3.2% |
| 1975 | 10,077 t | -2.1% |
| 1976 | 9,647 t | -4.3% |
| 1977 | 8,702 t | -9.8% |
| 1978 | 8,747 t | +0.5% |
| 1979 | 12,600 t | +44.0% |
| 1980 | 9,800 t | -22.2% |
| 1981 | 10,100 t | +3.1% |
| 1982 | 8,000 t | -20.8% |
| 1983 | 9,500 t | +18.8% |
| 1984 | 8,500 t | -10.5% |
| 1985 | 9,260 t | +8.9% |
| 1986 | 10,000 t | +8.0% |
| 1987 | 11,000 t | +10.0% |
| 1988 | 13,000 t | +18.2% |
| 1989 | 15,000 t | +15.4% |
| 1990 | 17,000 t | +13.3% |
| 1991 | 18,000 t | +5.9% |
| 1992 | 13,241 t | -26.4% |
| 1993 | 13,385 t | +1.1% |
| 1994 | 13,023 t | -2.7% |
| 1995 | 13,000 t | -0.2% |
| 1996 | 12,000 t | -7.7% |
| 1997 | 12,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1998 | 12,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1999 | 12,000 t | +0.0% |
| 2000 | 12,301 t | +2.5% |
| 2001 | 12,387 t | +0.7% |
| 2002 | 12,473 t | +0.7% |
| 2003 | 12,652 t | +1.4% |
| 2004 | 12,762 t | +0.9% |
| 2005 | 12,867 t | +0.8% |
| 2006 | 12,953 t | +0.7% |
| 2007 | 13,000 t | +0.4% |
| 2008 | 13,329 t | +2.5% |
| 2009 | 13,544 t | +1.6% |
| 2010 | 14,000 t | +3.4% |
| 2011 | 14,200 t | +1.4% |
| 2012 | 14,500 t | +2.1% |
| 2013 | 14,000 t | -3.4% |
| 2014 | 14,031 t | +0.2% |
| 2015 | 14,123 t | +0.7% |
| 2016 | 14,330 t | +1.5% |
| 2017 | 14,436 t | +0.7% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 11,138 t | 9,714 t | 11,927 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 10,073 t | 8,702 t | 12,600 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 10,416 t | 8,000 t | 15,000 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 13,565 t | 12,000 t | 18,000 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 12,827 t | 12,301 t | 13,544 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 14,203 t | 14,000 t | 14,500 t | 8 |
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 22.64 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0106 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
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- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
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- Share of GDP from agriculture 1.1% (2025)
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- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.3% (2024)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — production in Ireland?
- Shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — production in Ireland was 14,436 t in 2017, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — production recorded in Ireland?
- The highest recorded value was 18,000 t in 1991.
- What is the lowest shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — production recorded in Ireland?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,000 t in 1982.
- How does Ireland rank for shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — production?
- Ireland ranks 23rd out of 100 countries with data for 2017.
- Is shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — production rising or falling in Ireland?
- Over the last ten years it is up 11.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Ireland data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — Production. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.