More than one in six Irish-born people are now living abroad, the highest share of any country in the OECD. New analysis from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development shows 17.5 per cent of people over the age of 15 who were born in Ireland were residing overseas in 2014, topping the survey of the 34 OECD member countries. Ireland outranked New Zealand and Portugal, both with 14 per cent of their over-15 populations living abroad, followed by Mexico, Luxemburg and Iceland, which all have about 12 per cent residing overseas. The findings are contained in a chapter on Irish migration in the latest biennial assessment of the Irish economy, published by the OECD this week. The...
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