# NUTS 3 areas of Ireland by population in April, 2026

All 8 values come from Central Statistics Office (Ireland) for 2026, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `population_april`
- Unit: persons
- Definition: Usually resident population in April of the reported year, as estimated by the Central Statistics Office of Ireland from the census, births, deaths and migration. Estimates are published in thousands, rounded to the nearest hundred persons.
- Source: Central Statistics Office (Ireland), Table PEA04, Estimated Population (Persons in April), NUTS 3 regions, all ages, both sexes (https://ws.cso.ie/public/api.restful/PxStat.Data.Cube_API.ReadDataset/PEA04/JSON-stat/2.0/en)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/cso-ireland
- Retrieved: 2026-10-11
- Citation: Source: Central Statistics Office, Ireland. Table PEA04, Estimated Population (Persons in April), NUTS 3 regions, all ages, both sexes. https://ws.cso.ie/public/api.restful/PxStat.Data.Cube_API.ReadDataset/PEA04/JSON-stat/2.0/en. Retrieved 2026-10-11. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. No changes made to source values.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/population-april/ireland-provinces

| Rank | Place | persons |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Dublin | 1,597,700 |
| 2 | South-West | 792,900 |
| 3 | Mid-East | 788,400 |
| 4 | Mid-West | 543,000 |
| 5 | West | 531,100 |
| 6 | South-East | 485,400 |
| 7 | Border | 447,600 |
| 8 | Midland | 339,400 |