We Passed 5 Million Population this Evening.

MyLove4Satan

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/ireland-population/

TP_CM

It's crazy to think we still haven't recovered from the famine and the aftermath of the famine.

Potential-Monke

And gas to think that we're only 0.06% of the total global population...

Lucky five millionth person will get 10 minutes to zip around Super Valu and fill their trolly.

Real Donald Trump

Something to tell the grandkids about

KevRossi

I think that was Kellie Harrington and Emmet Brennan returning back from Tokyo that did it.

KevRossi

We were actually supposed to have a census in April, we would have known the real population if it had been held. Postponed to April 2022 instead.

Is it just cow farts or do human farts contribute to global warming?

Dr. Bre

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117735685#Comment_117735685

Depends what you have eaten

Sy Kick

I hope no one dies tonight.

beachhead

Building electric cars contribute to global warming and heavy breathing of the working(robots?)involved.The next official Irish government census will determine how many people are living here.If,they all participate,that is.

Housefree

Where did everyone pre famine live? Considering we don't have enough housing now

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117735831#Comment_117735831

Mud cabins which includes there own poop, you learn something new everyday.

Juwwi

I blame the generous children's allowance

Strumms

4,588,252 was the population 10 years ago in 2011 as per that census.

4,757,976 in 2016

5,000,102 now ?

Around 411,850 more people living here now then 10 years ago.

our population has increased by around 9% (8.976% to be exact) in a decade.

is that growth sustainable ? I doubt it. That growth won’t stop..An island nation our size and how we live I think we is in trouble.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117735878#Comment_117735878

An island nation our size, we are not densely populated not one bit. We are actually probably under populated even with the housing crisis but we have idiot after idiot getting elected.

Population of holland - 17.3 million

Population of Belgium - 11.5 million

and so on

Northernlily

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117735878#Comment_117735878

It would be nice if we could keep it around this figure in my opinion. We have a nice little island here.

The rate of infrastructure building is not correlating at all with the population increases. Reactive and not proactive so we are.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117735894#Comment_117735894

i agree, such a population surge, the infrastructure and services to cope, deal and facilitate it comes at a price, a massive one... one which in truth in the main, the rest of us end up paying for... when our quality of life, security/safety and indeed wellbeing are compromised.... we need to speak up.

TP_CM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117735831#Comment_117735831

I'll happily stand corrected on this but I believe larger families lived in smaller houses, and a large number of those houses were knocked by the british landlords after the introduction of a property tax. It led to an incredible amount of evictions which led to an incredible rate of emigration.

I see sheep

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117735840#Comment_117735840

Blame?

It's a good thing.

Figerty

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117735831#Comment_117735831

Have a look at the historical maps on the OSI website. Just look at your own area or any rural area at the pre-famine and post-famine and you can see the wipeout of the small 1-acre type households.. or look at the census data for inner-city Dublin.

blackcard

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117735831#Comment_117735831

Cork had the highest population of the 26 counties back then, followed by Galway, Tipperary and Mayo. Hard to believe Dublin was fifth

magicbastarder

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117735831#Comment_117735831

counties like cavan and monaghan had far higher pre-famine population than they do now - cavan was at a quarter of a million pre-famine, less than one third of that now IIRC.

Peregrinus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117735900#Comment_117735900

On the other hand, population surge increases the workforce, increases the productive capacity of the economy, increase the tax base, and increases the ability to construct infrastructure and provide services.

In 1987, Italy's GDP overtook the UK's to make Italy (then) the 6th largest economy in the world (and the UK the seventh). In 1991, Italy overtook France as well. Today, a generation later, Italy's GDP is about 67% of the UK's, and 71% of France's. The difference in performance over that period due to a number of factors but by far the biggest is the much lower Italian birthrate, leading to a smaller workforce, leading to a smaller economy. Even though they have a smaller population to maintain, this still causes problems; Italian living standards, measured in GDP per capita, were ahead of both France and the UK 30 years ago, but are now well behind.

So, yeah, restraining population growth may have other advantages, but it's not a good way of preserving prosperity. It has very much the opposite effect.

Peregrinus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117735831#Comment_117735831

They live in hovels, mostly. But that was because they were poor, not because they were numerous. The dramatic fall in population after the famine was not associated with an improvement in housing conditions; people still lived in hovels. It was another generation before the land wars lead to reforms which saw living standards for tenant farmers start to rise in any significant way and - as far as housing conditions went - that was a painfully slow process.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117736375#Comment_117736375

It only increases the workforce is the people arriving want to work and there are jobs for them.

more potential employees and a more competitive jobs market also drives down wages as it is an employers market. So we lose again.

if a logistics company now pay 35,000 euros plus 100% of health insurance for a warehouse operative... if they end up with 60 applications for two positions they don’t need to have that health insurance sweetener, don’t need to pay that competitive salary because they know the demand exists for those two positions...now people willing to work just to exist over making a living.

Fuascailteoir

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117736292#Comment_117736292

I remember being at some lecture where the famine era population decline in Cavan was mentioned. Pre famine the county was quite wealthy as had a substantial linen and textile industry. This was wiped out in the mid 1840s and lead to mass emigration

rob316

Just 3.2m in 1900 it was, by 2050 its predicted to be nearly 6m. In 150 years the population will have effectively doubled.

JupiterKid

The 5 million mark for the Republic of Ireland is a very significant one as the area now occupied by the country passed this mark post-famine - on the way down - around 1861 or so. The nadir of our population was in 1961, where it dropped to just 2.8 million, slightly more than half of the current level.

Census 1966 was the first census since 1841 that showed an increase in population, due largely to the modernisation and industrialisation of the Irish economy during the heady 1960s and 1970s. During the 1970s Ireland experienced rapid population growth, fueled by a baby boom and returning emigrants - only to be reversed in the late 1980s by high emigration. Growth resumed in the mid 1990s and has been the trend ever since. We passed the 3 million mark in 1972 and the 4 million mark in 2003.

Ireland has gained nearly 1.5 million people since Census 1996. That's an almost 40% increase in just 25 years and very significant.

As for the pre-famine times, the island was over-populated for its carrying capacity at the time, with big concentrations of population along the Western seaboard in counties Kerry, Clare, Galway, Mayo, Sligo and Donegal. Almost all supported by an over-dependence on the potato crop (the lumper variety of spud) which in hindsight was completely unsustainable and very risky.

Much of this population lived in Clachans - rural "villages" of clustered small dwellings based on the old Rundale system of farming. Post famine, there was massive depopulation of the West and South and these areas were reconfigured by the Congested Districts Board, who built new roads, reoriented farms into linear patterns and obliterated the old Rundale "infield" and "outfield" system. Many people lived in one room hovels, mud huts etc. As recently as the 1930s there were still people living in rural mud huts.

Dublin took a big share of those survivors of the famine who did not emigrate - this is when the slums and tenements of the inner city grew, leading to a severe housing crisis by the turn of the 20th Century.

whisky_galore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117735839#Comment_117735839

"...this tenant Mc Swiney had lived in a one roomed house and he had his cows, sheep and goats all in the room with himself,

After Mc Swiney had left this house it had taken two men , three days to throw out forty loads of manure….this was in the year 1848."

And shyte inside as well. Nice.

kabakuyu

I reckon we reached 5 mil a couple of years ago,census returns can't be 100% accurate.There are thousands of people who do not return census forms and are undocumented in the country.