Foreign-born population of the United Kingdom

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According to the 2001 United Kingdom Census, 8.3 per cent of the country's population were foreign-born as of April 2001.^[1]

The table below lists the places of birth of UK residents according to the 2001 Census.^[2] Where available population figures including the following are also stated:

• British born people with roots in that nation (i.e. people belonging to that ethnic group or nationality, e.g. British born people of Jamaican descent, British of French descent, British of German descent and others).
• People born in nor the UK or the listed nation (e.g. British people of African American descent and British people of Chinese Jamaican descent).
• Most recent figures for the population of people born in that nation

Country/ Region of Birth	Population (2001)	Total Population (as stated above)	Corresponding article(s)
United Kingdom total	53,923,642	N/A	British people
England	44,028,981 (42,968,596 located in England)	N/A	English people, Cornish people
Scotland	5,246,136 (4,459,071 located in Scotland)	N/A	Scottish people
Wales	2,818,093 (2,136,380 located in Wales)	N/A	Welsh people
Northern Ireland	1,829,648 (1,534,268 located in N.Ireland)	N/A	Northern Irish people
Republic of Ireland	533,901	14,000,000 [3]	Irish British people
India	467,634	1,600,000 [4]	Indian British people
Pakistan	321,167	1,000,000 [5]	Pakistani British people
Germany	266,136	N/A	German British people (a large portion are thought to be German-born children of British military personnel)
United States	158,434	224,000 [6]	American British people
Bangladesh	154,362	500,000 [7]	Bangladeshi British people
Jamaica	146,401	N/A	Jamaican British people
South Africa	141,405	550,000 [8]	South African British people
Kenya	129,633	N/A	Kenyan British people
Australia	107,871	400,000 [9]	Australian British people
Italy	107,244	N/A	Italian British people
Hong Kong	96,445	N/A	Hongkonger British people
France	96,281	N/A	French British people
Nigeria	88,378	800,000 - 3,000,000 [10]	Nigerian British people
Cyprus	77,673	N/A	Cypriot British people
Canada	72,518	N/A	Canadian British people
Sri Lanka	67,938	N/A	Sri Lankan British people
Poland	60,711	1,000,000 [11]	Polish British people
New Zealand	58,286	N/A	New Zealander British people
Ghana	56,112	1,500,000 [12]	Ghanaian British people
Uganda	55,213	N/A	Ugandan British people
Spain	54,482	N/A	Spanish British people
Turkey	54,079	400,000 [13]	Turkish British people
China (The People's Republic of.)	51,078	N/A	Chinese British people
Malaysia	49,886	N/A	Malaysian British people
Zimbabwe	49,524	N/A	Zimbabwean British people
Somalia	43,515	43,515[14]	Somali British people
Iran	42,494	250,000 - 300,000 [15]	Iranian British people
Other/ Not Stated	42,216	N/A	Various, though the Cornish are the most frequently used term,[16]. There was an official "Cornish" ethnic category on the 2001 Census. (Ref: United Kingdom Census 2001 Ethnic Codes)
Singapore	40,474	N/A	Singaporean British people
Netherlands	40,438	N/A	Dutch British people
Philippines	40,118	200,000 [17]	Filipino British people
Japan	37,535	51,000 [18]	Japanese British people
Portugal	36,555	500,000 [19]	Portuguese British people
Greece	35,169	N/A	Greek British people
United Republic of Tanzania	32,630	N/A	Tanzanian British people
Iraq	32,236	250,000 - 450,000 [20]	Iraqi British people
Serbia and Montenegro	31,244	N/A	Serbian British people
Malta	30,178	N/A	Maltese British people
Mauritius	27,078	N/A	Mauritian British people
Egypt	24,700	N/A	Egyptian British people
Vietnam	23,347	55,000 [21]	Vietnamese British people
Africa (Country not stated)	22,975	N/A
Sweden	22,525	N/A
Belgium	21,668	N/A
Barbados	21,601	N/A	Barbadian British people
Zambia	21,529	N/A
Trinidad and Tobago	21,283	N/A	Trinidadian British people
Guyana	20,872	N/A	Guyanese British people
Austria	19,503	N/A	Austrian British people
Denmark	18,695	N/A
Sierra Leone	17,048	N/A	Sierra Leonean British people
Thailand	16,257	36,000 [22]	Thai British people
Switzerland	16,010	N/A	Swiss British people
Brazil	15,215	200,000 - 300,000 [23]	Brazilian British people
Russia	15,160	300,000 [24]	Russian British people
Afghanistan	14,875	200,000 [25]	Afghan British people
Norway	13,798	N/A
Hungary	13,159	N/A	Hungarian British people
Yemen	12,508	70,000 - 80,000 [26]	Yemeni British people
Morocco	12,348	N/A	Moroccan British people
Malawi	12,340	N/A
Colombia	12,331	130,000 - 160,000 [27]	Colombian British people
South Korea	12,310	41,195 [28]	Korean British people
Czech Republic	12,220	N/A	Czech British people
Ukraine	11,913	N/A	Ukrainian British people
Israel	11,892	N/A	Israeli British people
Gibraltar	11,830	N/A	Gibraltarian British people
Finland	11,322	N/A
Sudan	10,671	N/A
Algeria	10,670	N/A
Lebanon	10,459	N/A	Lebanese British people
Burma (Myanmar)	9,924	N/A	Burmese British people
Grenada	9,783	N/A	Grenadian British people
Libya	9,141	N/A
Saudi Arabia	8,789	N/A
Democratic Republic of the Congo	8,569	N/A
Saint Lucia	8,265	N/A	Saint Lucian British people
Montserrat	7,983	N/A	Montserratian British people
Ethiopia	7,775	20,000	Ethiopian British people
Romania	7,631	50,000 [29]	Romanian British people
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	7,091	N/A	Vincentian British people
Croatia	6,992	N/A	Croatian British people
Argentina	6,796	N/A	Argentine British people
Dominica	6,739	N/A	Dominican British people
Indonesia	6,711	N/A
Bosnia-Herzegovina	6,692	N/A
Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)	6,588	N/A
Eritrea	6,561	N/A
Saint Kitts and Nevis	6,519	N/A	Saint Kitts and Nevisian British people
Nepal	5,943	50,000 [30]	Nepali British people
Angola	5,914	N/A
Kuwait	5,882	N/A
Asia (Country not stated)	5,677	N/A
United Arab Emirates	5,406	N/A
Bulgaria	5,351	N/A	Bulgarian British people
Slovak Republic	5,273	N/A
Chile	5,131	N/A	Chilean British people
Mexico	5,049	N/A	Mexican British people
Lithuania	4,363	200,000 [31]
Latvia	4,275	30,000 - 40,000 [32]
Bahrain	4,185	N/A
Syria	4,168	N/A
Peru	4,066	45,000 - 65,000 [33]	Peruvian British people
Venezuela	3,996	N/A	Venezuelan British people
Gambia	3,924	N/A
Antigua and Barbuda	3,891	N/A	Antiguan British people
Fiji	3,464	N/A	Fijians in the United Kingdom
Mozambique	3,353	N/A
Republic of the Congo	3,266	N/A
Cameroon	3,233	N/A
Jordan	3,115	N/A
Tunisia	3,070	N/A
Ecuador	3,035	70,000 - 90,000 [34]	Ecuadorian British people
Bermuda	2,986	N/A
Seychelles	2,905	N/A
Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)	2,794	N/A
Brunei	2,782	N/A
West Bank (Palestinian territories)	2,483	N/A
Rwanda	2,373	N/A
Saint Helena	2,355	N/A
Albania	2,314	N/A
Botswana	2,051	N/A
Oman	2,024	N/A
Burundi	2,022	N/A
Estonia	2,005	14,000 [35]
Bahamas	1,797	N/A	Bahamian British people
Liberia	1,583	N/A
Iceland	1,552	N/A
Macau	1,490	N/A
South and Central America (Country not stated)	1,338	N/A
Macedonia	1,285	N/A
Belize	1,233	N/A
Namibia	1,230	N/A
Slovenia	1,228	N/A
Luxembourg	1,222	N/A
Belarus	1,154	N/A
Netherlands Antilles	1,151	N/A
Bolivia	1,143	15,000 - 25,000	Bolivian British people
Cuba	1,083	N/A	Cuban British people
Qatar	1,062	N/A
Papua New Guinea	1,057	N/A
Falkland Islands	1,044	N/A
Uruguay	963	N/A
Kazakhstan	871	N/A
Swaziland	863	N/A
Madagascar	789	N/A
Senegal	723	N/A
Cambodia	706	N/A
El Salvador	595	N/A
Armenia	589	N/A
Azerbaijan	561	N/A
Togo	553	N/A
Georgia	551	N/A
Dominican Republic	523	N/A
Uzbekistan	521	N/A
Guatemala	499	N/A
Anguilla	498	N/A
Paraguay	493	N/A
Panama	492	N/A
Former USSR (Country not stated)	483	N/A
Laos	464	N/A
Moldova	455	N/A
Honduras	420	N/A
Guinea-Bissau	381	N/A
Costa Rica	376	N/A
Cayman Islands	369	N/A
Lesotho	331	N/A
Cape Verde	328	N/A
Central African Republic	312	N/A
Solomon Islands	309	N/A
Puerto Rico	306	N/A
Mongolia	293	N/A
Europe (Country not stated)	269	N/A
Guinea	265	N/A
Suriname	264	N/A
Benin	239	N/A
Djibouti	237	N/A
Monaco	225	N/A
Nicaragua	223	N/A
Maldives	200	N/A
Chad	183	N/A
Kiribati	179	N/A
Haiti	164	N/A
British Virgin Islands	163	N/A
Tonga	143	N/A
Gabon	135	N/A
Vanuatu	135	N/A
Kyrgyzstan	133	N/A
Samoa	125	N/A
United States Virgin Islands	124	N/A
Mali	121	N/A
Oceania (Country not stated)	108	N/A
Sao Tome and Principe	102	N/A
Tajikistan	101	N/A
Burkina Faso	99	N/A
Turkmenistan	99	N/A
Niger	96	N/A
Bhutan	86	N/A
Comoros	62	N/A
Guam	61	N/A
Turks and Caicos Islands	56	N/A
Equatorial Guinea	51	N/A
Cook Islands	37	N/A
Andorra	35	N/A
American Samoa	30	N/A
Mauritania	28	N/A
Liechtenstein	23	N/A
North Korea	22	N/A
British Indian Ocean Territory	19	N/A
Nauru	14	N/A
Tuvalu	10	N/A
San Marino	9	N/A
Norfolk Islands	4	N/A
Micronesia (Federated States of.)	3	N/A
Niue	3	N/A
Pitcairn Islands	3	N/A
Palau	3	N/A
Aruba	0	N/A
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	0	N/A
Northern Mariana Islands	0	N/A
Tokelau	0	N/A
East Timor	0	N/A
Vatican City	0	N/A

• Note: The African-Caribbean communities total populations are rough estimates based on the percentage of people born in that country against the total Afro-Caribbean community.

[edit] Institute for Public Policy Research analysis

In 2005 the Institute for Public Policy Research published an analysis of data from the 2001 Census, revealing the number of people included in the census who were born outside the British Isles, where they lived, and comparing this information against the 1991 Census.^[36] The results were made available on the BBC website.^[37] Note that this data refers to Great Britain only, rather than the whole of the UK, because of the lack of digital boundaries in the census data for Northern Ireland.^[36]

[edit] References

1. ^ "Foreign-born: 1 in 12 in UK born overseas". Office for National Statistics. 2005-12-15. http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=1312. Retrieved on 2009-02-16. 
2. ^ "Country-of-birth database". Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/18/23/34792376.xls. Retrieved on 2008-09-21. 
3. ^ One in four Britons claim Irish roots
4. ^ "Neighbourhood Statistics Ethnicity Ethnicity database". National Statistics. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/ Neighbourhood Statistics Ethnicity. Retrieved on 2008-09-27. 
5. ^ STATEMENT SHOWING DISTRIBUTION OF NUMBER OF OVERSEAS PAKISTANIS LIVING/WORKING/STUDYING IN DIFFERENT REGIONS/COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD AS ON 30-6-2004
6. ^ Americans living abroad 2005
7. ^ "Channel S, working for the community". Channel S. http://www.chsuk.tv/. Retrieved on 2008-10-06. 
8. ^ South Africans in the UK
9. ^ Australians in the UK
10. ^ Between 800,000 and 3 million Nigerians in the UK
11. ^ Poles in the UK number around 1 million
12. ^ Ghanaians in the UK today
13. ^ 400,000 Turks in the UK
14. ^ BBC News with figures from the 2001 Census
15. ^ Between 1/4 of a million and 300,000 Iranians recide in the UK
16. ^ Cornish ethnicity data from the 2001 Census
17. ^ Over 200,000 Filipinos in the UK
18. ^ 51,000 Japanese expatriates in the UK in 2002
19. ^ "UK-Portuguese Newspaper Launched in Thetford Norfolk". NewswireToday. http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/10592/. Retrieved on 2009-01-17. 
20. ^ Between 250,000 - 450,000 Iraqis in the UK, many assylum seekers
21. ^ Vietnamese in the UK
22. ^ Thais and British born Thais in the UK, 2006
23. ^ Brazilians in the UK
24. ^ 300,000 Russians in the UK
25. ^ The Other Languages of England, British Journal of Educational Studies, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Oct., 1986), pp. 288-289 (retrieved 15 March 2008)]
26. ^ Yemenis in the UK
27. ^ Colombians in the UK
28. ^ Over 40,000 Koreans in the UK
29. ^ Romanians in the UK
30. ^ Nepalis in the UK
31. ^ Lithuanians in the UK
32. ^ Around 35,000 Latvians in the UK, although it is often claimed to be around 100,000 - 200,000
33. ^ Peruvians in the UK
34. ^ Ecuadorians in the UK
35. ^ 14,000 Estonian speakers in the UK
36. ^ ^{a b} Kyambi, Sarah (2005). Beyond Black and White: Mapping new immigrant communities. London: Institute for Public Policy Research. http://www.ippr.org.uk/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=308. 
37. ^ "Introduction and figures for Britain". Born Abroad: An immigration map of Britain. BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/uk/05/born_abroad/html/overview.stm. Retrieved on 2009-02-16. 

[edit] External links

• Beyond Black and White: Mapping new immigrant communities
• Born Abroad: An immigration map of Britain