A new report from the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council found that Ireland needs to prepare for a growth in spending as ...

The Government’s savings funds won’t be enough to deal with an ageing population, the State spending watchdog has warned.

Between 2002 and 2022, the population in the Republic increased by 31 per cent to 5,149,000. In the same period, the population grew by 13 per cent in Northern Ireland to 1.9 million.

Ireland’s population increased by 8% (387,274 people) between April 2016 and April 2022, Ireland’s Central Statistics Office (CSO) said on Tuesday, May 30. There were 5,149,139 people in the ...

The census in Northern Ireland took place on Sunday, March 21, 2021. The census in Ireland took place on Sunday, April 3, 2022, having been delayed due to the pandemic. Population of the island of ...

It added that the 5.15 million people living in Ireland in 2022 accounted for 73% of the island’s population, while the 1.91 million people in Northern Ireland accounted for 27%.

Furthermore, Ireland is the only European country where the population is 78% greater today than it was 60 years ago. Back in 1961, Ireland’s population hit an all-time low of 2.8 million.