IE · 2019 · migr_resfirst
First residence permits issued (total)
Ireland, 2019
In 2019, Ireland's first residence permits issued (total) increased by 18.7% compared to 2018, reaching 59,278.
Ireland accounts for 2.0% of the EU-27 total of 2,985,017.
Ireland ranks 12th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 61.4% (from 36,728 in 2014).
Source: Eurostat dataset migr_resfirst, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.