Kenneth Fox
The number of immigrants coming to Ireland in the year to April 2023 was up by over 31 per cent.
141,600 people arrived here in that time, compared to 107,800 in 2022.
It is one of the many findings in the Central Statistics Office's (CSO) Year in Numbers.
The number of people leaving Ireland also rose from just over 56,000 to 64,000.
Other key statistics from their data include: The Consumer Price Index in November 2023 was 3.9 per cent, the lowest rate recorded for 25 months.
Census 2022 results showed that Ireland’s population exceeded the five million threshold for the first time in 171 years, up 8 per cent since Census 2016.
The employment rate hit 74.2 per cent in Quarter 2 2023, the highest point since the current series began 25 years ago.
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was estimated to have fallen by 1.9 per cent in Quarter 3 2023, a fourth consecutive quarter of contraction.
However, Modified Domestic Demand, a key measure of underlying domestic economic activity, was broadly unchanged in the quarter.
The proportion of adults who experienced sexual violence in their lifetime was 40 perc cent.
More than half of women (52 per cent) said they had experienced sexual violence, compared with 28 per cent of men.
Around 80 per cent of people used the internet in 2023 for shopping, banking, or booking/ordering services online, although using email was the most popular activity at 93 per cent.
More than 700,000 people indicated on their Census form that they undertook voluntary work and of those, nearly 300,000 volunteered in a sporting organisation.
Almost 75 per cent of the top 1 per cent of earners were male, compared with 25 per cent of females.
Of those in the top 10 per cent of earners, just over 70 per cent were male and almost 30 per cent were female.
The median or mid-point price of a dwelling steadily increased over the course of the year from €305,000 in January to €323,000 in October 2023, the latest month for which data is available.
Finally, almost half (45 per cent) of all new private cars licensed were electric, plug-in hybrid, or hybrid, up to October 2023.
