Population — national citizens

In 2022, Ireland's population increased by 1.7% compared to 2021, reaching 4,496,343.

Ireland accounts for 1.1% of the EU-27 total of 408,287,841.

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 6.2% (from 4,233,335 in 2017).

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