World population/Ireland
Europe
Population of Ireland
5,356,945
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#125
world rank
0.06%
of world population
+0.86%
yearly change
+45,948
people this year
52,626
births a year
37,689
deaths a year
How the figure for Ireland is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Ireland at 5,356,945 on 1 July 2026, and projects 5,402,893 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people added every second.
That places Ireland at number 125 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.06 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 50 entries in Europe.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 52,626 births and 37,689 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
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