PPS allocations count first-time Personal Public Service Number registrations. This is a wider migration and population-administration signal than IPAS arrivals because it includes Irish births, workers, students, family migration, EU free movement, and other routes.

829,224Total first-time allocations in the compiled source series.
93Country or nationality labels in the compiled report.
IrelandLargest single label, driven primarily by registrations at birth.
Oct 2023Peak month in the compiled monthly series.

Largest Nationality/Country Labels

Country / nationality labelFirst-time PPS allocations
Ireland218,497
India78,405
Ukraine56,920
Brazil44,438
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland42,887
Romania40,767
Spain33,127
Italy25,271

Caveat: PPS allocation is not immigration status. It shows first-time registration with the Irish public-service identifier system, not whether a person arrived through asylum, employment, study, family, birth registration, or another channel.

Source

Department of Social Protection: Annual Allocations: PPS Numbers.

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