Irish Baby Boom

IRISH POPULATION AT ITS HIGHEST SINCE 1871

A population census which will be carried out in
April is expected to confirm that the Irish
population has grown to over 4.2M, an increase
of over 300,000 since 2002. A high birth rate,
the huge numbers of migrant workers arriving
here, especially from Poland and the new EU
states, as well as the high volume of emigrants
who have returned home, are being cited as the
main reasons for the dramatic increase.

The population of Ireland before the 1845-1849
famine was 6.5M. As recently as 1961 the
population was only 2.1M.

Fonte : Irishvoice.com




Irish Baby Boomers

By Paddy Clancy

Irish women are producing - on a per capita basis -more babies than anybody else in Europe.

In the 10 years to 2005 the population grew by 13.9 per cent to more than 4.1 million, according to figures released Tuesday by the Central Statistics Office in Dublin.

That included new births to Irish moms - a natural population increase of 8.3 per 1,000 people - as well as the arrival of more immigrants. There were 53,400 of them in the year up to last December compared with 8,000 per annum a decade ago.

The survey found that the Republic had the highest fertility rate in the European Union in 2004 - the last full year for which full birth statistics are available.

The EU average rate that year was 1.5 children per woman. In Ireland it was 1.95. Only France, with 1.9 children per woman, came close to the Irish figure.

Many of the mothers aren’t married or even in other permanent relationships.

The number of single-parent families with children aged under 20 has grown by nearly 80 per cent.

Although Ireland has the highest proportion of children in the EU, with 30.7 per cent of the population under 15, families are getting smaller. Over 10 years the average household size fell from 3.13 to 2.84. They are living longer. The average life expectancy for an Irish man is 75.8 years, up on the 1995 average of 73. Most Irish women can expect to live to almost 81, well above the 1995 average of 78.1.

Both sexes are living more than a third longer than in the hard times of the 1920s when the average life expectancy for men and women was a mere 58.

The numbers seeking work and a new life abroad are also down.

Emigration has halved - down from 31,200 in 1996 to 16,000 last year.

Economic experts put the reversed movement - more people arriving than are leaving - to the boom of the Celtic Tiger and more well-paid work opportunities in Ireland.

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