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County Dublin had a population of 1,458,154, [167] and the population of the Greater Dublin Area was 2,082,605. [ 168 ] [ 169 ] Of the population of Dublin city and its suburbs, 62.9% (794,925) were born in Dublin, 26.6% (336,021) were born outside of Ireland, while the remaining 10.5% (132,273) were born in a county other than Dublin.
For a more detailed analysis of current and historical Irish populations in the Republic of Ireland, see Irish population analysis. The population of the six counties of Northern Ireland as of 2021 is 1,903,100 [1] which would mean a total population on the island of Ireland as of 2022 of approximately 7,052,314. Data source (as of June 2023):
Immediately prior to the famine the population was recorded as 8.2 million by the 1841 census. [83] The population has never returned to this level since. [84] The population continued to fall until 1961; County Leitrim was the final Irish county to record a population increase post-famine, in 2006.
The local government area with the highest percentage growth rate was Fingal (8.1%), while Dublin city had the largest population increase (+26,942). Of Ireland's traditional counties , the largest overall population increase was in Dublin (+74,799), while both Dublin and Meath were jointly the fastest growing counties (5.9% ).
Satellite view of part of the Greater Dublin area. The population of the Dublin City and County (Dublin City, Fingal, South Dublin and Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown) and Outer Greater Dublin (Meath, Kildare and Wicklow) as of the 2022 census was 2,082,605 persons. This equates to 40.5% of Ireland's population.
It was organised by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) and reported a total population of 5,149,139, or an 8.1% increase since the prior 2016 census. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is the highest population recorded in a census since 1841 and the first time the population exceeded five million since 1851. [ 4 ]
The population of Ireland in 2024 was approximately 7.2 million (5.35 million in the Ireland and 1.91 million in Northern Ireland). Although these figures demonstrate significant growth over recent years, the population of Ireland remains below the record high of 8,175,124 in the 1841 census.
The population of Ireland was 5,123,536 people in 2022. Demographic statistics as of 2019. One birth every 8 minutes; One death every 16 minutes; One net migrant every 90 minutes; Net gain of one person every 14 minutes; Geographic Population Distribution. Urban population (areas with >1,500 people): 62.0% (2011) Rural population: 38.0% (2011)