The report says: The Irish have a per capita income of $48,140, ranking ranking them twelfth in the world........ a few years back a I had worked with a person from Irland (who was working for a US Company) and he had told me that Irland is also a poor country like India.
So the data seems to be incorrect (of course I do not know whether that country has progressed so much in the last 17-18 years).