1. MigrationIreland

   Ireland: in 2014–2024 468k more people arrived than left — Eurostat expected the opposite in 2013

   ActualEurostat projection 2013

   Eurostat's 2013 projection assumed that over these years 324k more would leave than arrive; the gap with the outcome is 791k people. The outcome: Eurostat data on arrivals and departures.

   Source: Eurostat: EUROPOP projections (2013 and 2015: Internet Archive copies of Eurostat files) and statisticsOpen on the chart →

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