Population — national citizens

In 2020, Ireland's population increased by 1.0% compared to 2019, reaching 4,371,064.

Ireland accounts for 1.1% of the EU-27 total of 410,499,424.

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 5.4% (from 4,145,431 in 2015).

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