An advisory body has cautioned that Ireland’s population faces the risk of what it described as a “vicious downward cycle” as birth rates continue to decline. The warning appears in a report by the ...

The Government has been urged to take immediate action to plan for shifts in Ireland’s population. A report from the National ...

Government must take action to tackle a falling birth rate by addressing housing, healthcare, education and public transport issues because an ageing population risks future economic stability, a new ...

A National Economic and Social Council report has suggested that the peak population will be reached in the next three decades.

There were just under 54,483 births across Ireland in 2022, according to new figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO). In contrast, there were nearly 36,000 deaths across the year, with a ...

As global birth rates continue to decline, the Trump administration has announced that it is considering policies aimed at reversing this trajectory for the United States. According to a recent report ...