Official census statistics from Ireland indicate a sharp decline in the country’s Jewish population during the past decade, the World Jewish Congress reported Thursday. Figures released by the Irish census bureau in Dublin show that for the period 1971-1981 the Jewish population had dropped some 20 percent at a time that the general population had increased by 15 percent. In 1971, census records indicated that there 2,128 Jews in the country. The most recent data cites an estimated figure for the Jewish population being between 1,500-1,900.
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