India has the most foreign-born residents in England and Wales, according to the census

India has the most foreign-born residents in England and Wales, according to the census, According to the most recent statistics based on the nation’s 2021 census data, over one in six of the population of England and Wales last year were foreign-born, with 1.5% of citizens being Indian. India continued to be the most common place of birth outside of the UK last year, with 920,000 people, according to the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS). Poland came in second with 743,000 people, or 1.2% of residents, while Pakistan came in third with 624,000. (1 percent)

The ONS stated in a release that “one in six regular residents of England and Wales were born outside the UK,” a rise of 2.5 million from 2011 from 7.5 million (13.4%) to 10 million (16.8%). According to the report, “India remained the most popular country of birth outside of the UK in 2021.” Since the last census ten years ago, the top three non-UK countries of birth for England and Wales have remained unaltered as being India, Poland, and Pakistan, with the numbers increasing across all categories – India from 694,000, Poland from 579,000, and Pakistan from 482,000 in 2011.

India has the most foreign-born residents in England and Wales, according to the census

 

India has the most foreign-born residents in England and Wales, according to the census

 

The census data also reveals that in 2021, the three most popular non-UK passports held by residents in England and Wales were Polish (760,000, 1.3%), Romanian (550,000, 0.9%), and Indian (369,000, 0.6%). London continued to have the highest percentage of residents who were not born in the UK as well as those who held non-UK passports. In 2021, more than four in ten (40.6%) of London’s regular residents were not born in the UK, and more than one in five (23.3%) possessed a passport from a country other than the UK. This represents a little increase from 2011, when 21.0% of Londoners possessed a non-UK passport and 36.7% of people were not born in the UK.

 

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As a result of the lifting of employment restrictions for Romanian nationals in 2014, the number of people who identified Romania as their country of birth increased by 576 percent since the previous census, from 80,000 in 2011 to 539,000 in 2021. This increase is the biggest of any country. “The census shows how the demographic composition has changed over the past ten years. Naturally, we left the EU and dealt with the pandemic throughout that decade,” said Jon Wroth-Smith, Census Deputy Director.

“While these circumstances may have affected people’s choices or abilities to immigrate or travel at a specific moment, the census informs us about the shift over the course of the decade – who was residing here in March 2021, compared with March 2011. We can see that Romanians have played a significant role in this transition, but there have also been rises as a result of immigration from Poland, India, Pakistan, and other southern European nations, including Italy, he added.

 

India has the most foreign-born residents in England and Wales, according to the census

 

The migration in the year before the census was smaller in 2021 than it was in 2011, as well, we can see. This was probably brought on by the numerous travel restrictions implemented during the coronavirus outbreak, he continued. In 2021, Jamaica and the United States were no longer among the top 10 non-UK countries of birth. Italy entered the table in sixth place, ahead of Bangladesh (seventh), Nigeria (eighth), Germany (ninth), and South Africa, and behind Romania (fourth) and Ireland (fifth) (10th). The number of people who were born in the European Union (EU) increased from 2.5 million in 2011 to 3.6 million (36.4%) of all inhabitants who were not UK citizens.

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