Population — national citizens

In 2019, Ireland's population increased by 1.3% compared to 2018, reaching 4,327,732.

Ireland accounts for 1.1% of the EU-27 total of 411,073,307.

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 5.3% (from 4,108,797 in 2014).

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