Population — national citizens

In 2017, Ireland's population increased by 1.3% compared to 2016, reaching 4,233,335.

Ireland accounts for 1.0% of the EU-27 total of 412,331,382.

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 4.8% (from 4,037,973 in 2012).

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