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Ireland

5,484,367

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+88.58K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+44.1%from 3.81M
Life expectancy83.0 years2024
Fertility rate1.47births per woman · 2024
Urban population64.6%2025
RegionEurope & Central AsiaHigh income

A country at every age

How Ireland is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1418.1%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6465.7%Working-age population
Ages 65+16.2%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate10.0births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate6.5deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+3.5births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+35.42Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Ireland look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 5.97M in 2050—13.6% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20245.26M
  2. 20505.97M
  3. 21005.29M
Median age in 205042.9years
Births in 205058.34Kduring the year
Deaths in 205056.88Kduring the year
Life expectancy86.2years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19602.83M
  2. 19702.96M
  3. 19803.41M
  4. 19903.51M
  5. 20003.81M
  6. 20104.56M
  7. 20205.04M
  8. 20255.48M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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