Live population of Ireland

According to official figures released by the United Nations and World Bank Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, the population of Ireland as of 2023 Jun 7 was 5,046,427

According to the 2022 Census, Ireland's share of the world population is 0.063%

Ireland population (2022) and previous data

Year	Over-all-population	Male	Female	Rural-population	Density- /km2	fertility-rate /women	Death-rate		Life-expectancy
Year	Over-all-population	Male	Female	Rural-population	Density- /km2	fertility-rate /women	M	F	M	F
2020	4,937,796	2,451,349	2,486,447	1,776,656	71.67	1.84	83,959	79,315	81.29	84.32
2015	4,652,420	2,302,544	2,349,876	1,760,732	67.53	1.84	73,620	71,397	80.35	83.70
2010	4,554,330	2,262,942	2,291,388	1,779,414	66.11	1.96	72,433	71,244	78.69	82.51
2005	4,141,218	2,067,315	2,073,903	1,665,092	60.11	2.003	70,452	66,994	77.36	81.99
2000	3,783,095	1,880,471	1,902,624	1,572,038	54.91	1.93	73,979	69,762	75.30	80.38
1995	3,592,180	1,783,718	1,808,462	1,535,495	52.14	1.90	80,527	74,017	73.33	78.82
1990	3,510,881	1,746,919	1,763,962	1,537,311	50.96	1.95	80,724	71,922	72.60	78.20
1985	3,510,978	1,755,457	1,755,521	1,558,789	50.96	2.25	84,626	72,641	71.47	77.15
1980	3,384,760	1,699,389	1,685,371	1,534,275	49.13	2.83	87,455	72,753	70.46	76.14
1975	3,137,181	1,575,376	1,561,805	1,476,338	45.53	3.24	90,410	75,363	69.43	74.81
1970	2,908,430	1,459,529	1,448,901	1,437,369	42.21	3.73	90,563	75,643	68.82	73.87
1965	2,823,644	1,417,516	1,406,128	1,537,713	40.98	3.86	89,705	75,190	68.63	73.08
1960	2,791,390	1,403,218	1,388,172	1,546,964	40.51	4.01	89,822	76,634	68.22	72.20
1955	2,873,410	1,454,046	1,419,364	1,632,344	41.71	3.58	91,906	79,011	67.49	70.94
1950	2,912,682	1,481,786	1,430,896	1,745,289	42.28	3.42	98,997	86,193	65.55	68.33