![People moving to Ireland from the US nearly doubles [OC]](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/a8vk8rseeflf1-1024x605.png "People moving to Ireland from the US nearly doubles [OC]")
I read this article https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2025/0826/1530216-cso-population-figures/
and wondered what this looked like over time. The figures include people moving back to Ireland which explains why it has been more coming than going in the past. But for probably 200 years there has been far more people moving to the US than the other way around from Ireland.
Posted by cavedave
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Data from the CSO [https://data.cso.ie/](https://data.cso.ie/) and made with python matplotlib
B b b but Americans earn so much more money than Europeans and have such a great lifestyle and and and
I’d be lying if I told you that I didn’t wistfully watch this Dublin live stream from time to time… [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4UZ4UvZXrg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4UZ4UvZXrg)
“But for probably 200 years there has been far more people moving to the US than the other way around from Ireland.”
Though the reverse is true for the last 25 years it seems.
Would Ireland having 290m fewer people have anything to do with it?
This will probably be temporary.
I mean, I get it
It seemed like an absolutely lovely place when I visited.
I wouldn’t mind living there in the slightest!
I studied abroad in Dublin, absolutely beautiful city. Very modern, very clean, very safe. Wouldn’t mind living there at all