Ireland: Migrant population

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 Ireland

Migrant population, percent of total population

 Latest value 16
 Year 2015
 Measure percent
 Data availability 1990 - 2015
 Average 11
 Min - Max 6 - 16
 Source United Nations Population Division
The latest value from 2015 is 16 percent, unchanged from 16 percent in 2010. In comparison, the world average is 10 percent, based on data from 195 countries. Historically, the average for Ireland from 1990 to 2015 is 11 percent. The minimum value, 6 percent, was reached in 1990 while the maximum of 16 percent was recorded in 2010. See the global rankings for that indicator or use the country comparator to compare trends over time.
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Definition: International migrant stock is the number of people born in a country other than that in which they live. It also includes refugees. The data used to estimate the international migrant stock at a particular time are obtained mainly from population censuses. The estimates are derived from the data on foreign-born population--people who have residence in one country but were born in another country. When data on the foreign-born population are not available, data on foreign population--that is, people who are citizens of a country other than the country in which they reside--are used as estimates. After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 people living in one of the newly independent countries who were born in another were classified as international migrants. Estimates of migrant stock in the newly independent states from 1990 on are based on the 1989 census of the Soviet Union. For countries with information on the international migrant stock for at least two points in time, interpolation or extrapolation was used to estimate the international migrant stock on July 1 of the reference years. For countries with only one observation, estimates for the reference years were derived using rates of change in the migrant stock in the years preceding or following the single observation available. A model was used to estimate migrants for countries that had no data.

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 Percent urban population 64.47 2023 percent
 Population density 73 2021 people per square km
 Population ages 65 and above 15.48 2023 percent
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 Percent female population 50.43 2023 percent
 Rural population, percent 35.53 2023 percent
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