Compilation of data from 2001 Census

• overview
• Total population in Britain:58,789,194 (connection to National Statistics)
• Total population in Wales: 2,903,085 (connection to National Statistics)
• Key population facts :ethnicity and religion (released 13 Feb 2003)
• Total population in Cardiff:305,340
• Select Religions in Wales (muslim, Hindu, Sikh & Buddist)

Overview

The results of the census will be the most easily accessible to the public and available free on the newly upgraded National Statistics website (@2002). BE4 staff will mount information relevant to Cardiff in general and the target groups in particular as it become available.

The population of the United Kingdom on Census Day 2001 was 58,789,194 it has been revealed by the Registrars General for England and Wales, for Scotland and for Northern Ireland. The populations of individual countries were: England 49,138,831 (83.6 per cent of the total population); Scotland 5,062,011 (8.6 per cent); Wales 2,903,085 (4.9 per cent); Northern Ireland 1,685,267 (2.9 per cent). Census 2001 results show an increase in the population of Wales

The population of Wales on Census day 2001 was 2,903,085, Registrar General for England and Wales, Len Cook, revealed in a report placed in the National Assembly for Wales on 30 September.

The report contains population by age and sex nationally and for local authority areas.This shows that in the past 20 years the population of Wales rose by 89,600 from 2,813,500 in mid-1981. England rose by 2,318,000 in the same period. This is a gain of 3.2 per cent compared with an increase of 4.3 per cent in the UK as a whole and 5.0 per cent in England. There were population rises for most authorities within the region with the only losses showing in Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Isle of Anglesey, Merthyr Tydfil, Neath Port Talbot, Rhondda, Cynon, Taff and Swansea.

By comparison with Wales, the population of Northern Ireland went up by 142,300 and Scotland went down by 118,200 since 1981. The population of England was 49,138,831.

Total population in Cardiff - released September 2002

Census 2001 - Ethnicity and religion in England and Wales

Eighty-seven per cent of the population of England and 96 per cent of the
population of Wales gave their ethnic origin as White British.

Comparisons with the 1991 Census show:

• The proportion of minority ethnic groups in England rose from six per cent
  to nine per cent - partly as a result of the addition of Mixed ethnic groups
  in 2001.
• There were increases in each of the Asian ethnic groups in England and
  increases in the proportion of Black Caribbean and Black African people.
  However, the proportion in the Black Other Category fell. Some of these
  people in 2001 may have ticked Mixed White and Black Caribbean or Mixed
  White and Black African.
• The proportion of Chinese rose from 0.3 per cent in 1991 to 0.4 per cent in
  2001.
• The numbers of people in Other ethnic groups fell - some people may have
  classified themselves as Mixed in 2001.

In Wales, there were increases in the proportion of Indian, Pakistani,
Bangladeshi and Chinese people, and 0.6 per cent classified themselves in
2001 as mixed ethnicity.

Select Religions

• Click HERE for full details re. Muslims in Wales
• Click HERE for full details re. Hindus in Wales
• Click HERE for full details re. Sikhs in Wales
• Click HERE for full details re. Buddists in Wales