Population (total, 1 January)

In 2020, Ireland's population (total, 1 january) increased by 1.5% compared to 2019, reaching 5,012,600.

Ireland accounts for 1.1% of the EU-27 total of 447,030,024.

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 7.2% (from 4,677,627 in 2015).

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