page_title: Demographics of the Republic of Ireland
section_title: Demographic statistics
hierarchical_section_title: Demographics of the Republic of Ireland / Demographic statistics
caption_attribution_description: English: A pie chart of non-national population of the Republic of Ireland (for nationalities &gt;10,000 persons).Português: Representação gráfica dos grupos populacionais imigrantes na República da Irlanda, com mais de 10 mil pessoas, em 2006.
context_page_description: The Republic of Ireland had a population of 4,761,865 at the 2016 census.
context_section_description: Demographic statistics according to the World Population Review in 2019.
  One birth every 8 minutes
  One death every 16 minutes
  One net migrant every 90 minutes
  Net gain of one person every 14 minutes
  The following demographic statistics are from the Republic of Ireland's Central Statistics Office (CSO), Eurostat and the CIA World Factbook.
  Population
  Population: 5,068,050 (July 2018 est.)
  Ethnic groups
  Irish 82.2%, Irish travelers 0.7%, other white 9.5%, Asian 2.1%, black 1.4%, other 1.5%, unspecified 2.6% (2016 est.)
  Age structure
  0–14 years: 21.37% (male 554,110 /female 529,067)
  15–24 years: 11.92% (male 306,052 /female 297,890)
  25–54 years: 42.86% (male 1,091,495 /female 1,080,594)
  55–64 years: 10.53% (male 267,255 /female 266,438)
  65 years and over: 13.32% (male 312,694 /female 362,455) (2018 est.)
  Median age
  total: 37.1 years Country comparison to the world: 70th
  male: 36.8 years
  female: 37.5 years (2018 est.)
  Birth rate
  13.8 births/1,000 population (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 137th
  Death rate
  6.6 deaths/1,000 population (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 140th
  Total fertility rate
  1.96 children born/woman (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 125th
  Net migration rate
  4 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2017 est.) Country comparison to the world: 28th
  Population growth rate
  1.11% (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 98th
  Mother's mean age at first birth
  30.7 years (2015 est.)
  Dependency ratios
  total dependency ratio: 53.8 (2015 est.)
  youth dependency ratio: 33.4 (2015 est.)
  elderly dependency ratio: 20.3 (2015 est.)
  potential support ratio: 4.9 (2015 est.):
  Sex ratio
  at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female (2017 est.)
  0–14 years: 1.05 male(s)/female (2017 est.)
  15–24 years: 1.03 male(s)/female (2017 est.)
  25–54 years: 1.01 male(s)/female (2017 est.)
  55–64 years: 1 male(s)/female (2017 est.)
  65 years and over: 0.86 male(s)/female (2017 est.)
  total population: 1 male(s)/female (2017 est.)
  Life expectancy at birth
  total population: 81 years. Country comparison to the world: 35th
  male: 78.7 years
  female: 83.5 years (2018 est.)
caption: Non-national groups with populations in the Republic of Ireland of 10,000 or more in 2006. Non-European Union nationals are shown exploded.
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