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Northern Ireland People & Society

Increase in estimated population from 1.8 million in 2010 to 1.9 million in 2020

Northern Ireland Population from 1821 to 2020

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Table NI37.1 Northern Ireland Population from 1821 to 2020

Table NI37.1 Northern Ireland Population from 1821 to 2020¹
Year	Population
1821	1,380,000
1831	1,574,000
1841	1,649,000
1851	1,443,000
1861	1,396,000
1871	1,359,000
1881	1,305,000
1891	1,236,000
1901	1,237,000
1902	1,238,000
1903	1,239,000
1904	1,241,000
1905	1,242,000
1906	1,243,000
1907	1,244,000
1908	1,245,000
1909	1,247,000
1910	1,248,000
1911	1,251,000
1912	1,250,000
1913	1,248,000
1914	1,249,000
1915	1,217,000
1916	1,212,000
1917	1,215,000
1918	1,221,000
1919	1,259,000
1920	1,269,000
1921	1,272,000
1922	1,284,000
1923	1,278,000
1924	1,258,000
1925	1,257,000
1926	1,254,000
1927	1,251,000
1928	1,250,000
1929	1,246,000
1930	1,244,000
1931	1,243,000
1932	1,251,000
1933	1,258,000
1934	1,265,000
1935	1,271,000
1936	1,276,000
1937	1,281,000
1938	1,286,000
1939	1,295,000
1940	1,296,000
1941	1,288,000
1942	1,296,000
1943	1,302,000
1944	1,316,000
1945	1,317,000
1946	1,333,000
1947	1,339,000
1948	1,351,000
1949	1,360,000
1950	1,369,000
1951	1,373,000
1952	1,375,000
1953	1,384,100
1954	1,387,300
1955	1,394,000
1956	1,397,000
1957	1,399,000
1958	1,402,300
1959	1,407,700
1960	1,419,800
1961	1,427,400
1962	1,435,400
1963	1,446,000
1964	1,458,000
1965	1,469,000
1966	1,478,000
1967	1,491,000
1968	1,502,000
1969	1,512,500
1970	1,524,000
1971	1,540,400
1972	1,539,000
1973	1,530,000
1974	1,526,900
1975	1,523,500
1976	1,523,500
1977	1,523,300
1978	1,523,200
1979	1,528,300
1980	1,532,800
1981	1,543,000
1982	1,544,500
1983	1,550,600
1984	1,557,300
1985	1,565,400
1986	1,573,500
1987	1,582,000
1988	1,585,400
1989	1,590,400
1990	1,595,600
1991	1,607,300
1992	1,623,300
1993	1,635,600
1994	1,643,700
1995	1,649,100
1996	1,661,800
1997	1,671,300
1998	1,677,800
1999	1,679,000
2000	1,682,900
2001	1,688,800
2002	1,697,500
2003	1,704,900
2004	1,714,000
2005	1,727,700
2006	1,743,100
2007	1,761,700
2008	1,779,200
2009	1,793,300
2010	1,804,800
2011	1,814,300
2012	1,823,600
2013	1,829,700
2014	1,840,500
2015	1,851,600
2016	1,862,100
2017	1,870,800
2018	1,881,600
2019	1,893,700
2020	1,895,500
Source: NISRA
¹The mid-year population estimates are generally quoted in rounded form, this is because population counts from the census and subsequent updates involving births, deaths and migration cannot be precise. In general the precision of the population estimates could be considered to be no better than to the nearest 100.

Open in Excel: Statistical Yearbook of Ireland 2021 Table NI37.1 (XLS 12KB)

Northern Ireland's Migration Data

Table NI37.2 Northern Ireland's Migration Data¹
Year	Gross Inflow	Gross Outflow	Net Migration
1981/82	9,960	18,740	-8,780
1982/83	14,360	18,940	-4,580
1983/84	15,594	19,007	-3,413
1984/85	15,098	19,002	-3,904
1985/86	15,889	19,112	-3,223
1986/87	13,478	19,122	-5,644
1987/88	13,832	21,514	-7,682
1988/89	14,373	20,779	-6,406
1989/90	15,040	19,833	-4,793
1990/91	17,640	16,197	1,443
1991/92	18,521	15,698	2,823
1992/93	17,544	14,876	2,668
1993/94	15,423	15,892	-469
1994/95	16,115	18,001	-1,886
1995/96	24,198	19,514	4,684
1996/97	16,922	17,954	-1,032
1997/98	16,911	18,696	-1,785
1998/99	17,433	22,248	-4,815
1999/00	17,748	19,975	-2,227
2000/01	18,169	19,278	-1,109
2001/02	18,998	17,982	1,016
2002/03	17,917	17,688	229
2003/04	20,419	18,854	1,565
2004/05	25,842	20,152	5,690
2005/06	28,183	20,307	7,876
2006/07	32,705	21,775	10,930
2007/08	30,402	22,688	7,714
2008/09	25,261	21,604	3,657
2009/10	24,544	23,394	1,150
2010/11	23,724	25,218	-1,494
2011/12	23,255	24,570	-1,315
2012/13	23,100	25,438	-2,338
2013/14	24,381	22,810	1,571
2014/15	23,566	21,534	2,032
2015/16	23,804	22,346	1,458
2016/17	22,069	20,894	1,175
2017/18	23,550	19,417	4,133
2018/19	25,638	20,811	4,827
2019/20	21,225	24,502	-3,277
Source: NISRA
¹In general the precision of the migration estimates could be considered to be no better than to the nearest 100.

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138

There were 138 girls named Fiadh in 2020, which moved it up 14 places to the 4th most popular girls' name when compared with 2019

Top 10 Baby Names in Northern Ireland, 2020

Table NI37.3 Top 10 Baby Names in Northern Ireland, 2020
Boys				Girls
Rank in 2020	Name	Number	Change in rank since 2019	Rank in 2020	Name	Number	Change in rank since 2019
1	James	190	0	1	Grace	176	0
2	Jack	175	0	2	Emily	146	0
3	Noah	174	0	3	Isla	144	1
4	Charlie	169	0	4	Fiadh	138	14
5	Oliver	134	1	5	Olivia	133	0
6	Thomas	119	2	6	Sophia	125	4
7	Finn	112	4	7	Sophie	123	2
7	Theo	112	6	8	Amelia	115	0
9	Harry	111	-4	9	Lucy	112	5
9	Cillian	111	5	10	Freya	101	6
				10	Ella	101	-7
Source: NISRA

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Northern Ireland Civil Partnerships, 2005 to 2019

Table NI37.4 Civil Partnerships, 2005 - 2019¹
Year	Number of Civil Partnerships
2005	12
2006	116
2007	111
2008	86
2009	96
2010	116
2011	89
2012	101
2013	100
2014	110
2015	89
2016	84
2017	92
2018	108
2019	103
Source: NISRA
¹Civil Partnerships were introduced in December 2005

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The Civil Partnership Act came into force in December 2005, enabling same-sex couples to obtain legal recognition of their relationship.

Police recorded crime in Northern Ireland (excluding fraud)1 by offence type, 2011/12 to 2020/21

Table NI37.5 Police recorded crime in Northern Ireland (excluding fraud)¹ by offence type, 2011/12 to 2020/21
Numbers
Offence type	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14	2014/15	2015/16²	2016/17²	2017/18²	2018/19²	2019/20²	2020/21
Victim-based crime
Violence against the person	30,458	30,304	32,404	34,252	35,685	33,353	34,131	36,426	41,305	39,284
Homicide	24	20	21	24	22	18	27	29	21	22
Violence with injury (including death/serious injury by unlawful driving)	15,600	14,849	14,129	14,421	15,008	13,961	13,722	14,247	13,590	11,731
Violence without injury (including harassment)	14,834	15,435	18,254	19,807	20,655	19,374	20,382	22,150	27,694	27,531

Sexual offences	1,816	1,933	2,233	2,729	3,029	3,148	3,430	3,535	3,550	3,335
Rape	553	534	551	737	778	820	966	1,095	1,014	1,028
Other sexual offences	1,263	1,399	1,682	1,992	2,251	2,328	2,464	2,440	2,536	2,307

Robbery	1,221	1,014	958	880	732	653	577	639	629	501
Robbery of personal property	801	711	715	632	550	515	436	498	511	407
Robbery of business property	420	303	243	248	182	138	141	141	118	94

Theft offences	37,270	35,611	36,023	35,445	34,130	31,006	30,223	30,657	29,147	20,467
Burglary	10,580	9,581	9,067	8,937	8,773	7,128	6,824	6,127	6,078	4,133
Theft from the person	609	661	576	514	558	413	439	499	475	206
Vehicle offences	6,017	5,339	5,609	5,089	4,925	4,418	3,880	3,661	3,271	2,498
Bicycle theft	1,058	1,073	1,097	966	718	844	863	833	882	731
Shoplifting	6,201	5,890	6,372	6,496	6,772	6,164	6,278	6,464	6,584	4,468
All other theft offences	12,805	13,067	13,302	13,443	12,384	12,039	11,939	13,073	11,857	8,431

Criminal damage	22,758	20,959	19,889	19,830	20,511	19,490	18,279	17,658	18,698	17,280

Other crimes against society
Drug offences	3,780	4,378	4,732	5,048	5,548	5,416	6,438	7,048	7,802	8,165
Trafficking of drugs	846	890	968	871	872	828	838	888	916	1,038
Possession of drugs	2,934	3,488	3,764	4,177	4,676	4,588	5,600	6,160	6,886	7,127
Possession of weapons offences	714	651	727	772	922	891	1,000	1,062	1,100	1,094
Public order offences	1,679	1,515	1,531	1,442	1,463	1,205	1,093	1,002	1,297	1,282
Miscellaneous crimes against society	2,313	2,193	2,420	2,780	2,912	2,871	2,952	2,826	2,964	2,931
TOTAL RECORDED CRIME – ALL OFFENCES(excluding Action Fraud)¹	102,009	98,558	100,917	103,178	104,932	98,033	98,123	100,853	106,492	94,339
Source: PSNI Statistics Branch
¹From 1 April 2015 Action Fraud became responsible for the central recording of fraud and cyber crime previously recorded by PSNI; Action Fraud became responsible for all such reports in England & Wales by 1 April 2014. Action Fraud is the UK’s National Reporting Centre for fraud and cyber crime reported directly to them from the public and other organisations. While this means that these fraud and cyber offences are no longer recorded by PSNI, Action Fraud figures relating to fraud and cyber crime occurring in Northern Ireland are provided to PSNI on a monthly basis. All figures within this table exclude crimes recorded by Action Fraud.
²Revisions to previously published data are applied on an annual basis to financial year crime figures from 2015/16 onwards, as a result of the introduction of the wider outcomes framework in April 2015. These revisions take account of crime cancellations and sanction outcomes identified since the previous annual publication. Revisions of this nature will next be applied in May 2022. Further guidance on crime cancellation can be found in the Home Office Counting Rules for Recorded Crime.

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11.4%

Decrease in total number of police recorded crime all offences (excluding action fraud) from 2019/2020 - 2020/2021

Environment taxes by tax type, 2013/14-2019/20

Table NI37.6 Environment taxes by tax type, 2013/14-2019/20
£million
Tax	2013/14	2014/15	2015/16	2016/17	2017/18	2018/19	2019/20

Total	1,510	1,430	1,393	1,427	1,525	1,556	1,580
Annual % change	-0.53	-5.30	-2.59	2.44	6.87	2.03	1.54
% of total taxes	0.09	0.08	0.08	0.08	0.08	0.08	0.08

Energy taxes (total)	1,056	968	901	873	910	912	882
Fuel duties	928	920	903	872	873	878	864
North Sea Oil & Gas revenues by population share:	128	48	-2	1	37	34	18

Transport taxes (total)	308	316	328	362	409	428	443
Vehicle excise duties paid by businesses	59	61	61	62	66	65	66
Air passenger duty	62	68	64	66	72	80	80
Insurance premium tax	72	67	84	113	140	141	144
Vehicle excise duties paid by households	115	120	119	121	131	142	153

Pollution and resource taxes (total)	146	146	164	192	206	216	255
Climate change levy	28	12	14	22	23	22	23
Environmental levies	58	65	84	97	121	138	147
EU ETS auction receipts	9	12	14	10	9	7	43
Landfill tax	39	42	38	41	34	30	24
Aggregates levy	12	15	14	22	19	19	18
Source: NISRA

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Statistical Yearbook of Ireland 2021: Part 3 Travel, Agriculture, Environment and COVID-19

Northern Ireland People & Society

Northern Ireland Population from 1821 to 2020

Northern Ireland's Migration Data

Top 10 Baby Names in Northern Ireland, 2020

Northern Ireland Civil Partnerships, 2005 to 2019

Police recorded crime in Northern Ireland (excluding fraud)1 by offence type, 2011/12 to 2020/21

Environment taxes by tax type, 2013/14-2019/20

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