Population — national citizens

In 2021, Ireland's population increased by 1.2% compared to 2020, reaching 4,422,652.

Ireland accounts for 1.1% of the EU-27 total of 408,574,754.

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 5.8% (from 4,180,236 in 2016).

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