![]() ![]() This is to be welcomed however, it is in stark contrast to the treatment of refugees fleeing other war-torn territories. 681,016 people identify themselves as other than “White Irish”, of whom 234,289 identify as Black, Asian or other people of colour.Īt the time of writing, 74,458 Ukrainian refugees, primarily women and children, have arrived in Ireland with thousands more still expected. The EU is granting “temporary protection" status, which means they can live, settle and work in the EU for a period of time. The unemployment rate among non-Irish nationals was 15.4 per cent, compared with a rate of 12.6 per cent among the Irish population.Ĭensus 2016 also asked people to identify their ethnicity and cultural background. There are proportionately fewer children under 14 (12.3 per cent versus 22.5 per cent), and older people (4 per cent versus 13 per cent) among non-Irish nationals. Non Irish nationals have a very different age profile to the rest of the population with half aged between 25 and 42 compared with a quarter of the Irish population. Other nationalities with over 10,000 residents included USA, Brazil, France, Germany, India, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Spain. The main nationalities were Polish (23 per cent) and UK (19 per cent). ![]() For the almost 13 per cent of the population who are non-Irish nationals, achieving real integration requires concerted policy responses aimed at supporting education, job activation, tackling hate speech and racism and supporting cultural awareness.Īccording to Census 2016, there was a total of 535,475 non-Irish nationals – representing 200 different nations - living in Ireland on Census night. Integration is defined in current Irish policy as the ‘ability to participate to the extent that a person needs and wishes in all of the major components of society without having to relinquish his or her own cultural identity’. The population is also becoming more diverse, with an estimated 3.6 per cent of the population (183,500 people) with a stated nationality as being from outside of the EU. The average age of the population is now 37.4, an increase of 6.3 years since 1981. This reduction in fertility levels and increased life expectancy means that Ireland’s population, while still relatively young, is getting older. Life expectancy, on the other hand, has increased with male life expectancy reaching 79.3 years in 2015 and female life expectancy reaching 83.3 years that year. Fertility rates are declining and the age at which women are having their first child has increased from 24.9 in 1980 to 31 in 2017. This growing population is also becoming more urbanised and increasingly well educated, particularly women. This is an increase of 361,671 people (7.6 per cent) from Census 2016 and the highest population recorded since 1841. Text The preliminary results from Census 2022 record a population in April of 2022 of 5,123,536 persons. ![]()
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