Population of the country

The last information on the population in Ireland is of beginning of 2009 and speaks about 6200000 inhabitants. Though it thinks that this number has increased lightly in the last months. As for the density of population it is necessary to say that it courts the 70 for km2.

Ireland is one of Europa's countries with the highest rate of birthrate (17 %), and one of the highest indexes of natural growth of the population (0,5 %). Also it contrasts with the rest of Europa for the youth of his population and the low index of urbanization (58 %).

Dublin and Cork are both cities with more than 100.000 inhabitants.