Fall in percentage of people under 75 reporting good general health

A question on smoking tobacco products, included for the first time in an Irish census, found 13% of the population smoked either daily or occasionally, with a higher prevalence of smoking among people in their 20s and 30s.

There has been a fall in the percentage of people aged under 75 reporting good general health.

Census 2022 found that the percentage of people reporting their general health status as either very good or good decreased from 87% in the last census in 2016 to 83% in 2022.