New figures from the Central Statistics Office show that the seasonally adjusted Live Register total for October stood at 182,600, down 800 or 0.4% from the previous month.
The CSO said the unadjusted Live Register total stood at 179,555 people in October.
Of the 179,555 on the Live Register, 53.3% were men and 72.4% were Irish.
The CSO said the 35-44 age group made up the largest number of those on the Live Register last month at 42,227 people, or 23.5% of the total.
Meanwhile, the counties that saw the greatest increase in the 12 months to October 2022 were Kerry (32.7%) and Clare (27.4%).
Tipperary and Meath were the only counties that saw a decrease in the number of persons on the Live Register in the same period.
Today's figures also show that there were 17,571 people benefitting from the EU's Temporary Protection Directive included in the Live Register figures for October, an increase of 4,066 from September.
People arriving in Ireland from Ukraine under the EU's Temporary Protection Directive can access a wide range of Department of Social Protection supports.
The Live Register is not designed to measure unemployment as it includes part-time workers as well as seasonal and casual workers who are entitled to Jobseeker's Benefit or Jobseeker's Allowance.
Figures from the CSO earlier this month showed that the unemployment rate stood at 4.4% in October, unchanged for the third month in a row after the August and September figures were both revised up from 4.3%.
