Written answers
Wednesday, 29 September 2010
Department of An Taoiseach
Migration Statistics
11:00 pm
Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 152: To ask the Taoiseach the estimated age profile of inward migration and of outward migration and of net migration flows in each of the past five years. [31821/10]
John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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The information requested by the Deputy is in set out in the following table which was taken from the Annual Population and Migration Release, published in respect of Mid-April each year. The table distinguishes immigrants and emigrants by Sex and Age Group for the years 2006-2010.
| Estimated Migration classified by Age Group, 2006 – 2010 | ||||||
| Age groups | 0 – 14 | 15 – 24 | 25 – 44 | 45 – 64 | 65 and over | Total |
| Persons | ||||||
| Immigrants (000) | ||||||
| Year ending April | ||||||
| 2006 | 11.5 | 31.6 | 57.2 | 6.1 | 1.4 | 107.8 |
| 2007 | 11.7 | 30.3 | 59.8 | 6.9 | 0.9 | 109.5 |
| 2008 | 13.6 | 23.7 | 39.2 | 5.8 | 1.5 | 83.8 |
| 2009 | 5.9 | 16.3 | 29.8 | 3.9 | 1.4 | 57.3 |
| 2010 | 3.6 | 8.2 | 14.6 | 3.0 | 1.4 | 30.8 |
| Emigrants (000) | ||||||
| Year ending April | ||||||
| 2006 | 2.2 | 15.9 | 14.2 | 2.0 | 1.6 | 36.0 |
| 2007 | 1.3 | 16.6 | 19.3 | 2.7 | 2.3 | 42.2 |
| 2008 | 1.5 | 18.2 | 20.3 | 2.6 | 2.8 | 45.3 |
| 2009 | 1.2 | 28.8 | 30.4 | 2.6 | 2.0 | 65.1 |
| 2010 | 1.2 | 28.2 | 29.9 | 3.5 | 2.5 | 65.3 |
| Net Migration (000) | ||||||
| Year ending April | ||||||
| 2006 | 9.3 | 15.7 | 43.0 | 4.1 | -0.2 | 71.8 |
| 2007 | 10.4 | 13.7 | 40.5 | 4.2 | -1.4 | 67.3 |
| 2008 | 12.1 | 5.5 | 18.9 | 3.2 | -1.3 | 38.5 |
| 2009 | 4.7 | -12.5 | -0.6 | 1.3 | -0.6 | -7.8 |
| 2010 | 2.4 | -20.0 | -15.3 | -0.5 | -1.1 | -34.5 |
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