Population — national citizens

In 2015, Ireland's population increased by 0.9% compared to 2014, reaching 4,145,431.

Ireland accounts for 1.0% of the EU-27 total of 413,249,567.

Ireland ranks 20th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 4.2% (from 3,979,238 in 2010).

Source: Eurostat dataset migr_pop1ctz, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.