A Hundred and Fifty Years of Vital Statistics: Documenting Demographic Change in Ireland

Abstract

In December 2015 the CSO published the 150th annual Vital Statistics volume (for 2013) – a publication which has played a central role in documenting demographic change in Ireland since the first edition for 1864. This paper uses these data, together with other data, especially the data from the Census, to examine how Irish demography has evolved over the last century and a half.