The population of the Republic of Ireland has increased to 5.52 million, figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show.<\/p>\n
This is an increase of 66,900 people in the 12 months to the end of April.<\/p>\n
Of the population, 4.94 million are Irish citizens, making up 83.2 per cent of the country.<\/p>\n
The CSO also confirms that 931,000 of the population are non-Irish citizens.<\/p>\n
Since 2020, there has been a 22.7 per cent increase in the number of people 65 and over in the country.<\/p>\n
The number of people aged between zero and 14 years fell below one million to 992,400, the first time this age bracket fell under one million people since 2014.<\/p>\n
The number of births continued to decline, with 55,000 people under the age of one year living in Ireland, a decrease of 19,900 people in 16 years.<\/p>\n
There were an estimated 110,600 immigrants. This was a 12 per cent decrease from the corresponding period ending in April 2025 and was the fifth successive 12-month period in which over 100,000 people immigrated to Ireland.<\/p>\n
There was a fall in emigration numbers for the second year in a row with an estimated 62,500 people departing the State.<\/p>\n
This was a decrease of 3,100 people when compared with the same period up to April 2025.<\/p>\n
There was positive overall net migration of 48,100, a decline of 11,600 people or 19 per cent from 59,700.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The population of the Republic of Ireland has increased to 5.52 million, figures from the Central Statistics Office…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-603164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}