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Ireland Facts and Figures about the Population of IrelandThe population of Ireland facts according to the Central Statistics Office of Ireland in 2006 was calculated to be 4,239,848 Irelands facts and figures for the population of Ireland are collected every 5 years and in 2006 the survey size was 1,400,000 households. Below are the criteria used for gathering facts in Irelands population census. Facts gathered in Ireland's census Person Variables - Sex, household composition, age, location, marital status, Irish language, religion, membership of the Traveller Community, disability, commuting pattern, education, 3rd level qualification, carers, economic status, employment, occupation, place of work, industry and labour force. Household Variables - Accomodation type, year built, nature of occupancy, rent paid, number of rooms, heating/water/sewerage facilities, cars, P.C. and internet access.
Irelands Facts and Figures from last censusThe facts show that since the last census, the Irish populationswelled by 322,645, roughly split between immigrants and births. That lifted the total population to 4.2 million. No other European Union country has a younger population: statistically speaking you could say the Irish have been barely aging at all, with the median age staying close to 33. When considering Ireland's facts experts predicted that the population could rise to over five million in about a dozen years, and to six million within a generation. With a growing population in Northern Ireland, the island could match its largest population — more than eight million before the devastating 19th-century famine that prompted waves of emigration — by 2032. The facts from Ireland's census show that population changes have been uneven geographically. New houses stretch in a wide arc from north Dublin to the west of the city. But the city's core, despite being replenished by an influx of immigrants, has lost residents to the suburbs and to once unimaginably distant commuting centers in the midlands. In the south, the city of Cork shrank while the county grew.
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