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Population pyramid of Belfast in 2021. The age demographics of Belfast is different to the rest of the constituent country, 18% were aged 0 to 14, 37% aged 15 to 39, 30% aged 40 to 64 and 15% aged 65 and above. [8]
The population of Belfast town is estimated at 19,000. [citation needed] 1808 – Population of Belfast is estimated to be 25,000. [34] 1811 – At its peak, the Belfast cotton industry employs 22,000 people directly in spinning mills and 30,000 more people indirectly in weaving and other roles. [47]
In 2021, there were 345,418 residents within the expanded 2015 Belfast local government boundary [223] and 634,600 in the Belfast Metropolitan Area, [224] approximately one third of Northern Ireland's 1.9 million population. As with many cities, Belfast's inner city is currently characterised by the elderly, students and single young people ...
Of the 80 District Electoral Areas that make up the local government districts, Botanic in Belfast has the highest population density at 4,653 people per km 2, [19] as well as being the most populous DEA (49,727 people in 2021). [20] The DEA includes Belfast city centre, Queen's University, and much of the city's student population.
Belfast, with 579,726 residents, is the largest city in Northern Ireland. ... In part, the fall in population was caused by death from the Great Famine of 1845 to ...
The Belfast metropolitan urban area had a population of 579,276 in 2001 [4] and a population of 626,339 in 2021, [5] or 89% of the total population of the metropolitan area. The area is made up of established towns, their overspill and the general conjoining of settlements as Belfast expands.
The population of Ireland in 2024 was approximately 7.2 million (5.35 million in the Republic of 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.
A number of IRA volunteers were also killed. Belfast suffered the most casualties, as 455 people there were killed: 267 Catholics, 151 Protestants and 37 members of the security forces. [180] The city had a higher per-capita death rate than any other part of Ireland during the Irish revolutionary period, with 40% of all conflict-related deaths ...