Ireland - Population density

Population density (people per sq. km of land area)

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in Ireland was 72.37 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 72.37 in 2020 and a minimum value of 41.00 in 1961.

Definition: Population density is midyear population divided by land area in square kilometers. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship--except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population of their country of origin. Land area is a country's total area, excluding area under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. In most cases the definition of inland water bodies includes major rivers and lakes.

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization and World Bank population estimates.

See also:

Year Value
1961 41.00
1962 41.17
1963 41.41
1964 41.61
1965 41.77
1966 41.93
1967 42.13
1968 42.32
1969 42.57
1970 42.93
1971 43.43
1972 44.08
1973 44.80
1974 45.54
1975 46.30
1976 47.00
1977 47.64
1978 48.32
1979 48.97
1980 49.54
1981 50.12
1982 50.60
1983 50.96
1984 51.28
1985 51.36
1986 51.38
1987 51.39
1988 51.17
1989 50.97
1990 51.01
1991 51.30
1992 51.65
1993 51.91
1994 52.12
1995 52.39
1996 52.80
1997 53.33
1998 53.89
1999 54.50
2000 55.24
2001 56.12
2002 57.08
2003 58.01
2004 59.08
2005 60.38
2006 62.04
2007 63.85
2008 65.17
2009 65.84
2010 66.19
2011 66.48
2012 66.77
2013 67.12
2014 67.61
2015 68.25
2016 69.03
2017 69.78
2018 70.65
2019 71.63
2020 72.37

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization