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Ethnic demography of Wales from 1981–2011 Ethnic makeup of Wales in single year age groups in 2021 Population pyramid of Wales by ethnicity in 2021. According to the 2011 census, 2.2 million (73%) of usual residents of Wales were born there, two percent less than in 2001. The change can be attributed to both international and internal migration.
The names "Wales" and "Welsh" are modern descendants of the Anglo-Saxon word wealh, a descendant of the Proto-Germanic word walhaz, which was derived from the name of the Gaulish people known to the Romans as Volcae and which came to refer indiscriminately to inhabitants of the Roman Empire. [15]
Black Welsh people are inhabitants of Wales who have an African or an Afro-Caribbean background and are black. Wales is home to one of the United Kingdom's oldest black communities, and Tiger Bay in Cardiff has housed a large Somali population since the development of the port in the 19th century. The 2011 census reported that there were more ...
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In Wales and Scotland the majority of white and ethnic minority participants identified with Welsh or Scottish first and British second. [35] Research suggests that on average ethnic minorities are twice as likely to say their ethnicity is important to them than white British participants, although the extent of this difference also interacted ...
The ethnic make-up of Cardiff's population at the time of the 2001 census was: 91.6% white, 2% mixed race, 4% South Asian, 1.3% black, 1.2% other ethnic groups. According to a report published in 2005, over 30,000 people from an ethnic minority live in Cardiff, around 8.4% of the city's total — many of these communities live in Butetown ...
Ethnic group within the Mixed group (in England and Wales) 2021 [35] Population % of total pop % of group makeup Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Black Caribbean 513,042 0.9 29.9% Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Asian (unspecified) 488,225 0.8 28.4% Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Black African 249,596 0.4 14.5%
minority follows Islam (9.2%), other faiths (1.1%) [a] or are irreligious (33.1%) 2021 census, England and Wales only [ 2 ] Mixed White and Black African people in the United Kingdom are a multi-ethnic and biracial group of UK-residents who identify with, or are perceived to have, both White and Black African ancestry.