A national literature in Irish is reemerging. Anglo-Irish writers, including Swift, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Burke, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, and Samuel Beckett, have made a major contribution to world literature over the past 300 years.
Population: 3,797,257 (July 2000 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
21.85% (male 425,795; female 403,777)
15-64 years:
66.83% (male 1,271,367; female 1,266,150)
65 years and over:
11.33% (male 185,913; female 244,255) (2000 est.)
Population growth rate: 1.16% (2000 est.)
Birth rate: 14.51 births/1,000 population (2000 est.)
Death rate: 8.14 deaths/1,000 population (2000 est.)
Net migration rate: 5.27 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2000 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.07 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.06 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
1 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.76 male(s)/female
total population:
0.98 male(s)/female (2000 est.)
Infant mortality rate: 5.62 deaths/1,000 live births (2000 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
76.81 years
male:
74.06 years
female:
79.74 years (2000 est.)
Total fertility rate: 1.91 children born/woman (2000 est.)
Nationality:
noun:
Irishman(men), Irishwoman(women), Irish (collective plural)
adjective:
Irish
Ethnic groups: Celtic, English
Religions: Roman Catholic 91.6%, [Church of Ireland]? 2.5%, other 5.9% (1998)
Languages: English is the language generally used, Irish (Gaelic) spoken mainly in areas located along the western seaboard
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
98% (1981 est.)
male:
NA%
female:
NA%
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