La popolazione dell’isola d’Irlanda ha superato per la prima volta 7 milioni di persone in oltre 170 anni
https://i.redd.it/5neehdyfpfaf1.png
di NanorH
La popolazione dell’isola d’Irlanda ha superato per la prima volta 7 milioni di persone in oltre 170 anni
https://i.redd.it/5neehdyfpfaf1.png
di NanorH
15 commenti
[Makes one wonder about the cause.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland))
_Large amounts of food were exported from Ireland during the famine and the refusal of London to bar such exports, as had been done on previous occasions, was an immediate and continuing source of controversy_
_Initial limited but constructive government actions to alleviate famine distress were ended by a new Whig administration in London, which pursued a laissez-faire economic doctrine, but also because some in power believed in divine providence or that the Irish lacked moral character_
What about the Irish language? In the past few years i have seen a lot of statistics showing it is “dying”. Are there any policies to improve the situation and prevent that?
The “Age 65 and over” part is a bit baffling, poor choice on how to display that data there.
That puts the population of the entire island of Ireland about on par with the Community of Madrid in Spain, both being just over 7 million people. Ireland (all island) is just over 10 times larger than the Community of Madrid, with 84,421 km² compared to just 8,028 km².
Of course, one is a heavily urbanised, centralised region in a much larger and more populous country, vs an island on the edge of Europe that has a lower population than it should (the famine definitely changed the trajectory of Ireland), but it’s still interesting for me to compare the two regions and their similarities and differences.
Another fun fact is that the the Republic of Ireland only has about 900 km of motorway, while the Community of Madrid has over 600 km despite its size. That’s a more shocking figure imo, and shows the vast differences in the levels of infrastructure too between the regions.
Good, the world need more Irish people.
hmmm….. yes, i see now – Lower left part of iconografic means that females had more sex than males. /s
Is parental leave to blame or less immigration.
No sign of potato blight?
How many are Irish?
So, we in the south are less dense than Northern Ireland? I knew it!
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/fp/fp-ipeads/irishpopulationestimatesfromadministrativedatasources2023/
CSO also has this interesting report.
The population based on administrative data is 5.45million in the Republic of Ireland as of April 2023 so there has been considerable growth since the 2022 census that the report in op is based.
To put things into context, the population of the island of Ireland was around 8.5 million before the Great Famine. At that time Great Britain had a population of just over double that at 18.5 million.
Great Britain now has a population over 9 times greater than Ireland (65 million vs 7 million).
Ireland is also the only country in the world, apparently, that has a lower population now than in 1840.
The internal population of the island has changed markedly, too, with only 8 of the 32 counties having a larger population today than pre-famine. It’s incredible to think how different the demographics and population of the island would have been if not for these tragic events. We could have been a nation of 30 million people.
We need more Indians.
Kinda wild that Ireland could have been an island with like 20-25 million people if you look at its size and soil fertility and overlayed the population density of England over it.
Feels a bit like Europe was robbed from having another major country in its union, at a similar size and economic scale of The Netherlands or Scandinavia combined.
It’s mostly third world immigrants bringing the number up. Nothing to celebrate.