Population — national citizens

In 2016, Ireland's population increased by 0.8% compared to 2015, reaching 4,180,236.

Ireland accounts for 1.0% of the EU-27 total of 412,714,600.

Ireland ranks 19th 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 4,010,403 in 2011).

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