CSO Statistics: Figures offer a snapshot of Ireland

Are you feeling just that little bit older today? Maybe you should be — a statistical yearbook shows the estimated average age of the population was 37 in April 2015 — 1.4 years older than the average in 2009.

It is just one of a sweep of figures contained in the annual release by the CSO, indicating that we are better educated than before, that more and more of us tend to live in and around Dublin, and that we are still calling our children Jack and Emily.

As a snapshot of a nation, it is not quite up to date — some of the information is based on the 2011 census — but in many ways it tells us quite a bit about this great little country of ours.