# Population
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This year
2024
FACTCHECK
Debunked: No evidence to support claim that Ireland's population will drop by 72.4% by 2025
4 Jan
1.3k
Last year
2023
Population
World population due to top eight billion people by 1 January, US Census Bureau says
29 Dec 2023
10.4k
62
FACTCHECK
Debunked: Conspiracy site Infowars used fake claims about Ireland as evidence of 'white genocide'
9 Sep 2023
29.2k
census 2022
Census 2022: Number who identify as Catholic falls by 10 percentage points to 69%
30 May 2023
46.3k
204
All time
Population
Ireland's population grows at highest rate since 2008 in last 12 months - CSO
24 Aug 2022
30.9k
62
Population boom
Census 2022: Initial results show population of Ireland at highest figure since 1841
23 Jun 2022
29.7k
31
CSO
Ireland’s population has topped five million, reaching highest level since 1851
31 Aug 2021
51.2k
55
rise and fall
Global population forecast to peak by 2064 before shrinking at end of century
15 Jul 2020
15.8k
42
Nearly 5 million
Ireland's population has risen this year, but more Irish people are leaving than returning
27 Aug 2019
74.5k
131
Taking Stock
The native Irish population was in centuries of decline before the Vikings came along
22 Aug 2019
28.2k
81
Population Control
China's two-child policy has led to 5.4 million extra births, fewer than the government hoped
22 Aug 2019
21.9k
21
Emigration
More people are returning to Ireland than leaving for the first time since 2009
28 Aug 2018
15.6k
57
we're gettin' old
Demand for every kind of health service in Ireland is set to go through the roof in the next 13 years
26 Oct 2017
9.6k
17
worrying
About a fifth of us aged 35 today will be physically disabled in 30 years
24 Oct 2017
39.0k
16
ireland 2040
Ireland will need 550,000 more homes and 660,000 more jobs for extra 1 million people by 2040
27 Sep 2017
16.7k
104
Census 2016
One in 10 Irish people say they have no religion, the second largest group behind Roman Catholics
6 Apr 2017
55.4k
197
PICTURE OF IRELAND
Why do we have a census? Here's what the statistics are used for
6 Apr 2017
20.2k
27
Population
Turkish president says a woman's life is "incomplete" if she doesn't have children
6 Jun 2016
17.3k
73
getting auld
'The change in the global population over the next few years is unprecedented'
13 Dec 2015
27.3k
21
Population
What happens if you have a 2nd child in China? 'You'd become everyone’s punching bag'
31 Oct 2015
208k
32
not what you'd think
Incredible pictures give unexpected perspective into how the most wealthy live
9 Aug 2015
58.4k
33
gotta have faith
Christians are leaving the faith in droves and the trend isn't slowing down
5 May 2015
17.7k
66
Vital Statistics
Ireland's fertility rate is below what's needed to sustain our population
29 Nov 2014
17.8k
53
State of the Nation
Only 16% of emigrants were unemployed before they left Ireland
26 Aug 2014
12.9k
79
breathe in
If Irish people had never emigrated to the US, Ireland would be pretty packed
19 Mar 2014
32.3k
76