Age Profile of Irish Population

I'm starting to collate a profile of the Irish population to compare with other countries. The obvious place to go to is the Irish Central Statistics Office site. Very interesting detail here.

For example life expectancy in Ireland is 76.8 for males and 81.6 for females. Life expectancy in the UK is slightly higher for males (77.2) and slightly lower for females (81.5). The USA is slightly lower (75.1 for males; 80.2 for females). If you want to live longer then move to Japan (and I presume adopt their lifestyle) and expect to live until 78.8 for males and 85.62 for females.

Overall the population age profile for Ireland looks like this:



I always suspected that there were slightly more males than females in Ireland (except when men start to get into their 60s and 70s and start dropping off). Here is the proof.