La popolazione dell’isola d’Irlanda ha superato per la prima volta 7 milioni di persone in oltre 170 anni
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di NanorH
La popolazione dell’isola d’Irlanda ha superato per la prima volta 7 milioni di persone in oltre 170 anni
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di NanorH
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**Key Findings**
* In 2022, the population of the island of Ireland stood at 7.1 million people, an increase of 26%, or 1.5 million people, over the 20 years since 2002.
* This was the first time the population on the island of Ireland exceeded 7 million people since 1851.
* Between 2002 and 2022, the population in Ireland increased by 31% and by 13% in Northern Ireland.
* The 5.15 million people living in Ireland in 2022 accounted for 73% of the all-island population, while the 1.91 million people in Northern Ireland accounted for 27%.
* Northern Ireland’s population density (141 people per km²) was almost twice that of Ireland (73 people per km²).
* The median age of the population was 38 years in Ireland and 40 years in Northern Ireland, both below the EU average of 44 years.
* Northern Ireland had a higher proportion of people aged 65 years and over (18%) compared with Ireland (15%).
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-cpini/irelandandnorthernireland-ajointcensuspublication2021-2022/keyfindings/
And not even close to full …
Let me know when any of the supposed benefits of growing the population at this rate actually arrive…
Until then the schools will remain oversubscribed, housing will remain expensive, healthcare will remain a shambles, youth emigration will continue etc. etc.
Great more and more people competing for limited resources and services and pushing up prices and rents. The benefit to this massive population serge is that the wealthy and vested interests are making lots of money.
7 million isn’t enough. Thankfully the word is out that there are free houses and amenities for all newcomers. Anyone who says we need public services and housing to improve to accommodate the growing population is a bigot
That is a truly amazing difference in population density between NI and Ireland. Incredible to think that we are only really recovering from the famine now. I often wonder what Ireland would have been like if the famine hadn’t happened. We had 8.5m in 1845 and Britain had only 18m. Now Britain has 65m. So would Ireland have around 25m without the famine?
But we are supporting this population growth with amenities and facilities and healthcare and infrastructure? Right? …right?
The auld lad had two brothers and five sisters. With Granny and grandad, there was 10 of them in a small 3 bed cottage west of the Shannon.
Mum had two sisters and four brothers in a farm house not far from where I am now. It’d be a small family home today if it wasnt in ruin.
Our expectations around living standards have exploded in my lifetime even. I’ve got 3 kids and we wanted a five bed for when visitors stay over. On a recent post about student accomodation I caught a lot of flak arguing with students who thought twin rooms weren’t fair, saying student accomodation should all be single rooms.
Meeting the raised expectations around housing have made the supply side challenge more pronounced at a rate that’s almost faster than population growth. If there’s 15 Brazilians living in one house, that’s not half as much of a problem as my single brother and sister looking to buy places with gardens and spare rooms for themselves. The two of them will want a 3 bed a piece and that just wasn’t the case a generation ago.