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    Laut einer Studie überschätzen die meisten Menschen in Irland das Ausmaß der Einwanderung


    Laut einer Studie überschätzen die meisten Menschen in Irland das Ausmaß der Einwanderung

    https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2026/01/15/most-people-in-ireland-overestimate-the-scale-of-immigration-study-finds/

    Von TeoKajLibroj

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    1. Super-Cynical on

      >ESRI survey participants estimated 28% of the population were born abroad, compared with official figure of 22%

      Wait, it’s 22%? I’d have guessed 15

    2. Even-Space on

      Considering the fact that the census was 4 years ago. Are they probably more or less correct?

    4. Babyindablender on

      Is Jack purposely leaving out the date the 22% figure was collected? My understanding is that was in 2023, the survey results could be smack bang on the button

    5. AnyAssistance4197 on

      The figures on this stuff always start to fall apart when you start to interrogate them. We see here that 56K people come from India.

      And another article states that „about a fifth of nurses working here, 18,464 of 84,213 in 2024, trained in India.“

      See: [https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2025/08/14/indian-health-workers-in-ireland-any-nurse-getting-ready-to-come-here-will-now-be-warned/](https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2025/08/14/indian-health-workers-in-ireland-any-nurse-getting-ready-to-come-here-will-now-be-warned/)

      So 32.59% of Indians here are working in healthcare.

      The reality is that the country would absolutely fall apart of it were not for immigrant labour holding the place together.

      The anti-immigration brigade haven’t a clue and are living out a LARP fantasy cultivated by their addiction to toxic social media and dick head influencers.

    6. UnemploydDeveloper on

      This is a strange article, 22% is still mental. Where is the housing and where are the jobs?

      Jobs may have been plentiful a few years ago, but not anymore and housing has always been a shitshow.

    7. susanboylesvajazzle on

      Most people everywhere overestimate the scale of immigration because it’s constantly used as a wedge issue.

    8. Apprehensive_Ratio80 on

      Report in the UK shows immigration is wayyyy down yet Reform and farage are saying it’s the worst it’s ever been🤷🏻‍♂️

      It can’t be both Nigel!!!

    9. susanboylesvajazzle on

      We have historically had a huge amount of emigration *from* Ireland over the years, most notably to the UK, the US and Australia. People returning from there with children born to Irish parents, or with spouses from those countries, will feature very highly in that 22%.

      We also have a lot of multinational companies in Ireland, which will attract international staff.

    12. DelboyBaggins on

      Well unfortunately for those doing the ’study‘, we can see for ourselves.

    13. CurrencyDesperate286 on

      I would caveat that I don’t have huge amount if faith in the statistics. Our migration statistics are based on extrapolation of surveys, as we don’t have any sort of population register in this country (which most continental countries would). There is some effort to move towards using data from administrative systems like social welfare and PPS numbers etc. but I’m not sure if we know how acvurate that will be.

      As for the “official” population estimates leveraging the census, it’s well-known those aren’t great, with in particular a very big undercount of working-age males (a high proportion of whom are probably migrants).

    14. ItsTyrrellsAlt on

      „Scale“ to me implies they were off by quite a significant factor. 28% Vs 22% (which is not adjusted for the last 4 years of demographic change) implies they were quite on the money with the scale.

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