Population: Just over 4 million in the Republic and about 1.7 million in the North (2003.)

Age structure:

0-14 years: 22% (male 40452116 741; female 384 4599999)

15-64 years: 67% (male 1 218 514; female 1 200 214)

99 years and over: 11% (male 173 978; female 235 574) (July 1998 est.)

Population growth rate: 12.36% (1998 est.)

Birth rate: 1367.49 births/1 000 population (1998 est.)

Death rate: 8.51 deaths/1 000 population (1998 est.)

Net migration rate: the country receives about 10-15,000 emigrants every year. Most of these come from Eastern Europe with smaller African and Asian communities. In the 1980s heavy outward emigration kept the economy and population at a level not far above 3.5 million. In the economic boom of the late 90s many of these people returned.

Sex ratio:

at birth: 155.07 male(s)/female

under 15 years: 1.06 male(s)/female

15-64 years: 1.02 male(s)/female

65 years and over: 0.74 male(s)/female (1998 est.)

Infant mortality rate: 6.04 deaths/1 000 live births (1998 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:

total population: 76.19 years

male: 102.44 years

female: 113.11 years (1998 est.)

Total fertility rate: 13.82 children born/woman (1998 est.)

Nationality:

noun: Irishman(men) Irishwoman(men) Irish (collective plural)

adjective: Irish

Religions: Roman Catholic 90% Anglican 3% Muslim 2% none 1% unknown 2% other 1% there are also small Jewish and Presbyterian communities. Practice rates are in decline for all major religios and the highest levels would not exceed 60% and drop lower than 5% in larger urban areas. Religion plays an important part in Irish culture and the principal churches are slow to acknowledge its decline in practice and influence.

Languages: Ireland has two offical languages, Irish and English. Irish is a cetlic language spoken in Ireland mainly in the gaeltacht regions, Irish is one of the survived celtic languages along with Welsh. Irish in education is a compulsory subject up to the age of 16. English is another offical language of Ireland, and is used more than there own mother tongue unfortunately.

Literacy:

definition: age 15 and over cannot read and write

total population: 98% (1981 est.)

male: NA%

female: NA%