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Updated at 2.00pm
THE CSO HAS released preliminary results of the 2011 census, which was carried out in April.
The figures – which CSO statistician Shaun McLaughlin stressed were only “early results” based on summary counts – show Ireland’s population continuing to increase. There were an estimated 4,581,269 people living in the country on census night, a growth of 8.1 per cent since the last census in 2006.
Here are some of the other main findings:
Further data is available broken down by area on the CSO’s census 2011 website.
Additional reporting by Susan Ryan
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