Walsh, Jim
(2010)
Changing Ireland: The Turn-around of the Turn-around in the Population of the Republic of Ireland.
Irish Geography, 24.
pp. 117-125.
ISSN 0075-0778
Abstract
The provisional results of the 1991 census of
population indicate a continuation of trends established
in relation to fertility and migration in the early 1980s
(Cawley, 1990) which have resulted in a halting of the
growth in population that commenced in the early
1960s. It is estimated that the total population declined
by approximately 17,200 (0.5%) since 1986 giving an
estimated total of 3,523,401 for 1991. In contrast to the
1970s, when there was widespread population growth,
the geographical pattern of change for the late 1980s is
one of widespread decline, except in the immediate
hinterlands of the largest cities. The provisional
estimates issued by the Central Statistics Office (CSO)
in three publications are based on summaries returned
to the CSO by each of the 3,200 enumerators involved
in the carrying out of the census and, as such, are
subject to revision. The data contained in these
preliminary reports provide estimates of the total
population of each county and county borough;
estimates of the total number of males and females for
each of 54 urban districts, 5 county boroughs, 3 new
administrative units for county Dublin and 159 rural
districts as well as estimates of net migration by county
for the intercensal period 1986-91; and most recently
a disaggregation by age groups of the estimated number
of males and females in each urban and rural district.
Since the spatial and temporal changes in population
numbers, distribution and composition are outcomes
of the dynamic processes of fertility, mortality and
migration, and the economic and social processes
which influence them, this paper commences with a review of the components of change. This is followed
by an examination of the spatial patterns of change
which result from their interaction and by a
consideration of the changes which have occurred in
the age composition of the population, examining how
these adjustments have varied across the state. Since
the demographic outcome from the 1980s is different
in many respects from that of the 1970s, some of the
key areas of contrast will be noted throughout.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
Ireland; population |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography |
| Item ID: |
10954 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1080/00750779109555767 |
| Depositing User: |
Prof. Jim Walsh
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| Date Deposited: |
22 Jul 2019 15:22 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Irish Geography |
| Publisher: |
Taylor & Francis |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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