IE · 2020 · migr_resfirst
First residence permits issued (total)
Ireland, 2020
In 2020, Ireland's first residence permits issued (total) decreased by 48.7% compared to 2019, reaching 30,382.
Ireland accounts for 1.3% of the EU-27 total of 2,332,051.
Ireland ranks 14th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 20.9% (from 38,433 in 2015).
Source: Eurostat dataset migr_resfirst, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.