Réada Cronin
Question:1. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Taoiseach the number of persons resident here between 60 and 64 years of age. [11663/20]
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The reference period for the annual population estimates is mid-April of each year. The estimates for mid-April are calculated by trending forwards the most recent Census of Population data. For example, the base population data for the April 2017 estimates was the number of males and females resident in the State as established by the Census of Population 2016. From this base population, each person was aged by one year, births for the period were added and deaths were subtracted. The estimated number of immigrants was then added and the estimated number of emigrants was subtracted. The end result of this process provided the population estimate for April 2017 which in turn provides the base population for the subsequent year and so on. The population estimates are subject to revision once the definitive results of the next Census of Population become available.
The Central Statistics Office publishes the population estimates annually in August. The latest results were published on August 27th 2019 and estimate that in mid-April 2019 there were 4,921,500 persons resident in the State. Of these, 253,800 persons were estimated to be aged 60-64 years, accounting for 5.2% of the total resident population.