Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 13 July 2021
174. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Taoiseach if the Central Statistics Office has documented the number of non-Irish nationals usually resident in Ireland; and if so, the latest figures available for same in decreasing order in tabular form. [37502/21]
View answerThe most detailed statistics on non-Irish nationalities published by the CSO are from the Census of Population. Relevant reports from Census 2016 include Profile 7 - Migration and Diversity, published in September 2017, and the report on Non-Irish Nationalities Living in Ireland, published in September 2018. These reports contain statistics on the number of non-Irish nationals usually resident in Ireland and present on Census night, together with breakdowns by characteristics such as gender, age group, county of residence, educational attainment, principal economic status, religion, ethnicity, broad industrial group and socio-economic group. In April 2016, there were 535,475 non-Irish nationals usually resident in Ireland, a 1.6 per cent decrease compared with the 2011 figure (544,357). Just 12 countries, each with over 10,000 residents in Ireland, accounted for 73.6 per cent of all non-Irish nationals in 2016; these nationalities are set out in the following table.
Usually Resident Population by Nationality, Census 2016 – Irish and non-Irish nationalities with over 10,000 residents
|
Nationalities |
Number of Persons Usually Resident and Present on Census Night |
|
All nationalities |
4,689,921 |
|
Irish |
4,082,513 |
|
Polish |
122,515 |
|
UK |
103,113 |
|
Lithuanian |
36,552 |
|
Romanian |
29,186 |
|
Latvian |
19,933 |
|
Brazilian |
13,640 |
|
Spanish |
12,112 |
|
Italian |
11,732 |
|
French |
11,661 |
|
German |
11,531 |
|
Indian |
11,465 |
|
American (US) |
10,519 |
The CSO also publishes an annual estimate of the usually resident population, in its Population and Migration Estimates release. This release contains a very broad nationality breakdown. The latest figures are for April 2020 and the following table shows the estimated population, from April 2016 to April 2020, together with the very broad breakdown by nationality.
Estimated Population classified by Nationality, April 2016 to April 2020
|
- |
20161 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
|
Nationality |
(thousand) |
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|
Irish |
4,189.1 |
4,225.9 |
4,263.5 |
4,298.8 |
4,333.0 |
|
Non-Irish |
550.4 |
566.6 |
593.6 |
622.7 |
644.4 |
|
of which: |
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|
United Kingdom |
105.7 |
107.7 |
110.8 |
114.5 |
116.9 |
|
EU14 excluding Irish2 |
64.9 |
69.0 |
73.7 |
81.8 |
85.8 |
|
EU15 to EU27 states3 |
249.4 |
250.3 |
255.0 |
257.7 |
258.2 |
|
Non-EU nationalities |
130.4 |
139.6 |
154.1 |
168.7 |
183.5 |
|
Total Persons |
4,739.6 |
4,792.5 |
4,857.0 |
4,921.5 |
4,977.4 |
1 The figures for 2016 differ from corresponding Census 2016 numbers because: a) persons who did not state their nationality in the Census have been distributed pro rata; and b) some 49,000 usually resident persons who were temporarily absent from the country on census night are included in the annual estimate of usually resident population.
2 EU14 excluding Irish: The EU countries before enlargement on 1 May 2004, excluding Ireland and UK.
3 EU15 to EU27 states: The ten countries that joined the EU on 1 May 2004, along with Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia.
