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Ireland’s Long Run Economic Development and VulnerabilityManufacturing employment grew by close to 9,000 per year, whileinternational services grew by an annual average of 7,500 over thisperiod.TABLE 1.9Employment in Manufacturing and Internationally Traded Services1993 2000 Annual Change Annual Change(000s) (000s) (per cent) (000s)1. Manufacturing 219.4 281.0 3.6 8.82. InternationallyTraded Services 15.8 68.3 23.3 7.53. Total 1 and 2 235.2 349.3 5.8 16.34. Irish-owned 128.0 169.1 4.1 5.95. Foreign-owned 107.2 180.3 7.7 10.46. Total Economy 1152 1588 4.7 62.3Source: Calculated from Forfás, Annual Employment Survey 2000 and ESRIdatabank.Notes: The employment figures include both permanent, full-time employmentas well as part-time and contract employment. The figures formanufacturing include mining/quarrying, although this has only amarginal effect on the trends shown.Employment in foreign-owned companies in these sectors increasedby an annual average of 10,400 per year. Total employment grew byover 62,000. Therefore, the direct contribution of foreign-ownedmultinationals in the internationally trading sectors accounted forapproximately 16 per cent of employment growth. It would alsohave induced additional employment elsewhere in the economy.Over the period 1993 to 2000, Irish-owned companies contributedsignificantly to employment growth in the manufacturing andinternationally traded service sectors. The expansion of employmentof Irish-owned companies in these sectors represented over athird of employment growth in these sectors. To some extent, this isa reflection of the growth of domestic demand. The percentage ofoutput of Irish-owned manufacturing that was exported declinedfrom 35.3 per cent in 1993 to 31.3 per cent in 1999.41