Ireland
Key Statistics
Data are 2024 UN data and may differ from national statistics agencies.
1216000
Immigrant Population
23.1%
Immigrant Share of Total Population
714000
Emigrant Population
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Migration and Immigrants Two Years after the Financial Collapse: Where Do We Stand?
Two years after the 2008 global financial collapse, immigrants faced steeper job losses and squeezed integration budgets. But countries saw little large-scale return.
Ireland: From Rapid Immigration to Recession
Ireland went from the European Union's only net-emigration state to the third highest immigration rate by 2007, only to face recession-related strains.
EU Disunion: Immigration in an Enlarged Europe
One year after EU enlargement, only the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Sweden had opened labor markets to accession-state nationals.
Characteristics of the European Born in the United States in 2000
In 2000, 4.9 million European-born residents made up 15.8 percent of the U.S. immigrant population, with Eastern Europeans driving recent growth.