Ireland FAQs
Irish National Flag
Name: Republic of Ireland
Capital: Dublin
Population: 4,588,252
Religious State of Ireland:
Capital: Dublin
Population: 4,588,252
Religious State of Ireland:
- Less than 1% of the population is evangelical (in broadest sense of the term)
- There are 120+ towns with NO Evangelical presence at all!
- There exists 1 church for every 17,520 souls
- In County Louth, where we will be living, there are only 5 churches
- That equates to 1 church for every 22,253 souls
- The Muslim population is almost 2% - while small, it still out numbers the evangelicals 2:1
- In 2013 a survey was given to Irish citizens asking them to rank 119 issues as to which was the most important in their lives as to who they are as Irish citizens - religion ranked dead last at 119!
In Perspective - Percentage of Evangelicals in Other Mission Fields
**This means that Ireland (with 1% Evangelical population) falls in between Mongolia and Oman as to the percentage of Christians in the country**
- Angola - 22%
- Ethiopia - 18%
- Malaysia - 3.5%
- Egypt - 3.5%
- India - 1.5%
- Mongolia - 1.5%
- Oman - 0.8%
- Niger - 0.14%
**This means that Ireland (with 1% Evangelical population) falls in between Mongolia and Oman as to the percentage of Christians in the country**