Bitter but decisive elections followed and the next decade saw the population growth slow to a “mere” 67% rate. Minimum lot size and growth management quotas began to take effect and the once ...

Ireland has the fastest growing population in the EU, according to the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office. In the year to April 2007, the population grew by 2.5% to a total figure ...

“However, if the Republic of Ireland population were to continue growing at say 1.2 per cent per annum compound – at 0.6 per cent for natural growth and a similar growth rate for net in ...

By contrast, Spain’s poor ratio of 3.4 (only behind Ireland), is primarily due to an inability to ramp up housing supply rather than keep track with an expanding population, as it has witnessed ...

Migration into the European Union pushed its population to a record 450.4 million people last year, offsetting a natural ...

Ireland’s population is booming, according to recently released Eurostat figures from 2014.. The Republic of Ireland had the highest birth rate in the entire EU, at 14.4 babies born per 1,000 ...

It was the fourth highest rate of population growth within the EU during 2017, although Ireland still had the highest birth rate of any EU member state with 12.9 births per 1,000 population.

The population growth recorded was attributed to net migration, the report says. The highest birth rates in 2018 were recorded in Ireland, where the rate was 12.5 births per 1 000 residents, ...

The growth in the Irish population between 2015 and 2023 exceeded the delivery of new homes by a ratio of nearly four to ... which are also growing at the same rate. While Canada, like Ireland, ...