Census 2011

Population Usually Resident and Present in the State by Nationality and Age Group

All Irish

EU15 excl. Irish

EU15 to EU27 states

Non-EU

Non-Irish

Other, not stated and none

All nationalities

All ages

0-14

15-29

30-44

45-59

60-74

75+

3,927,143

877,898

751,663

859,494

735,083

484,637

218,368

160,539

15,421

30,930

53,194

36,108

19,323

5,563

226,225

38,048

81,677

85,805

18,950

1,579

166

157,593

25,100

45,826

67,159

15,792

2,866

850

544,357

78,569

158,433

206,158

70,850

23,768

6,579

53,781

17,525

9,918

9,780

6,372

6,306

3,880

4,525,281

973,992

920,014

1,075,432

812,305

514,711

228,827

Source: Census 2011, Central Statistics Office

Population Usually Resident and Present in the State by Nationality and Socio Economic Group

All Irish

EU27 excl.
Irish

Non-EU

Non-Irish

Other,
not stated
and none

Total

A. Employers and managers

B. Higher professional

C. Lower professional

D. Non-manual

E. Manual skilled

F. Semi-skilled

G. Unskilled

H. Own account workers

I. Farmers

J. Agricultural workers

Z. All others gainfully occupied and unknown

Total (%)

Total (000s)

16.3%

6.6%

12.5%

20.4%

8.3%

7.5%

3.1%

4.5%

4.1%

0.5%

16.3%

100.0%

3,927,143

10.9%

5.0%

8.0%

23.1%

12.3%

12.8%

6.3%

3.5%

0.6%

1.0%

16.4%

100.0%

386,764

8.5%

7.6%

16.0%

16.8%

4.6%

8.3%

2.7%

2.8%

0.3%

32.0%

100.0%

156,753

10.2%

5.8%

10.3%

21.3%

10.1%

11.5%

5.3%

3.3%

0.6%

0.8%

20.9%

100.0%

544,357

7.0%

2.4%

4.8%

10.9%

5.0%

4.6%

2.4%

2.1%

0.3%

58.4%

100.0%

54,621

15.4%

6.4%

12.1%

20.4%

8.5%

7.9%

3.3%

4.3%

3.7%

0.5%

17.3%

100.0%

4,525,281

Source: Census 2011, Central Statistics Office

Population (15+ Years) Usually Resident and Present in the State by Nationality and Principal Economic Status

At work

Unem-
ployed

Student
or Pupil

Looking after
home/family

Retired

Unable to
work/Other

Total persons
15+ (%)

Total persons
15+ (000)

Irish

Non-Irish

EU27 excluding Irish

Other European

African

Asian

American

Australian/New Zealand/Other

Multi/Not stated/Unknown/No nationality

All nationalities

49.0%

57.6%

61.0%

51.9%

38.7%

53.2%

48.1%

59.5%

43.7%

50.1%

11.1%

16.6%

16.7%

20.1%

24.0%

13.4%

11.3%

13.6%

13.0%

11.9%

11.2%

10.7%

6.9%

11.9%

22.6%

21.0%

24.6%

10.1%

10.0%

11.2%

9.7%

8.0%

7.5%

10.7%

8.1%

9.7%

9.4%

8.8%

11.5%

9.5%

13.9%

4.2%

5.2%

1.6%

0.6%

0.7%

4.8%

4.4%

16.1%

12.6%

5.0%

2.9%

2.7%

3.8%

6.1%

2.1%

1.8%

3.7%

5.8%

4.8%

100.0%

3,049,245

465,788

333,295

14,197

34,100

55,173

21,246

7,175

36,858

3,551,289

Source: Census 2011, Central Statistics Office

Population Usually Resident and Present in the State by Nationality and Religion
	All Irish	Non-Irish	EU27 excl. Irish	Other European	African	Asian	American	Other, not stated and none	All nation- alities
Roman Catholic	89.8%	52.0%	60.5%	13.6%	23.5%	29.6%	55.1%	42.4%	84.7%
Church of Ireland, England, Anglican, Episcopalian	2.4%	5.6%	6.6%	1.1%	6.2%	1.2%	2.5%	2.4%	2.7%
Muslim (Islamic)	0.5%	5.4%	0.6%	12.6%	21.1%	23.4%	0.7%	2.0%	1.1%
Orthodox (Greek, Coptic, Russian)	0.2%	6.4%	5.8%	54.6%	2.0%	3.5%	0.6%	1.6%	1.0%
Other Christian religion, n.e.s.	0.6%	2.8%	1.4%	1.8%	13.2%	3.9%	5.3%	1.1%	0.9%
Presbyterian	0.4%	1.5%	1.3%	0.4%	4.2%	0.5%	3.0%	0.7%	0.5%
Apostolic or Pentecostal	0.1%	1.5%	0.6%	0.2%	12.0%	0.6%	0.7%	0.4%	0.3%
Other stated religions	0.9%	7.4%	4.8%	3.8%	11.9%	19.2%	11.6%	2.0%	1.7%
No religion/not stated	5.2%	17.5%	18.4%	11.9%	5.9%	18.0%	20.5%	47.4%	7.2%
Total (%)	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%
Total (000s)	3,927,143	544,357	386,764	16,307	41,642	65,579	24,884	62,962	4,525,281

Source: Census 2011, Central Statistics Office

Population Usually Resident and Present in the State by Ethnic or Cultural Background and Nationality
	White Irish/ Irish Traveller	Other White	Black or Black Irish	Asian or Asian-Irish	Other incl. mixed background	Not stated	All
All Irish	98.9%	7.8%	39.6%	24.9%	34.5%	37.9%	86.8%
Non-Irish	0.6%	91.4%	58.4%	74.1%	64.2%	23.9%	12.0%
EU27 excluding Irish	0.5%	81.9%	4.6%	3.2%	31.6%	16.7%	8.5%
Other European	0.0%	3.3%	0.1%	0.2%	2.9%	1.1%	0.4%
African	0.0%	0.9%	50.1%	1.8%	5.8%	1.5%	0.9%
Asian	0.0%	0.5%	0.5%	67.5%	10.3%	2.4%	1.4%
American	0.1%	3.3%	2.1%	0.7%	11.6%	1.7%	0.5%
Australian/New Zealand/Other	0.0%	1.2%	0.9%	0.7%	1.7%	0.6%	0.2%
Multi/Not stated/Unknown/No nationality	0.5%	0.9%	2.0%	1.1%	1.6%	38.2%	1.2%
Total (%)	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%
Total (000s)	3,851,490	412,975	65,078	84,690	40,724	70,324	4,525,281

Source: Census 2011, Central Statistics Office

Population Usually Resident and Present in the State by Birthplace
Ireland EU27 excluding Ireland	3,758,511 555,594
Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Italy Luxembourg Netherlands Portugal Spain Sweden Bulgaria Cyprus Czech Republic Estonia Hungary Latvia Lithuania Malta Poland Romania Slovakia Slovenia UK	708 1,479 885 873 10,070 12,980 575 7,146 141 4,499 2,246 7,003 1,688 1,783 260 5,494 2,479 7,413 19,989 34,847 336 115,193 17,995 10,695 190 288,627
Other Europe	22,427
Russian Federation Other Europe	5,936 16,491
Africa	54,419
South Africa Nigeria Other Africa	8,116 19,780 26,523
Asia	79,021
China India Philippines Other Asian countries	11,458 17,856 13,833 35,874
America	47,116
United States Brazil Canada Other America	27,726 9,298 4,809 5,283
Australia/New Zealand/Other Oceanic countries	8,193
All countries excluding Ireland	766,770
All countries	4,525,281

Source: Census 2011, Central Statistics Office

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Census 2011