Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus, or Happy St David’s Day! 🏴
To celebrate the national day of Wales, here are some statistics about the country home to three national parks and five and a half areas of outstanding natural beauty (the Wye Valley is in both Wales and England!) 🌳
In mid-2020, the population of Wales was an estimated 3,170,000 people – a 0.53% increase compared with 2019 estimates👨👩👧👦🏴
@Census2021 data will provide an up-to-date picture of the population when results become available later this year ow.ly/lpUJ50I6NmE
Welsh names that were in the top 100 girls’ names for 2020 in Wales included Alys, Ffion, Seren, Eira and Megan 👶 ow.ly/IoX250I6NqE
Welsh names that were in the top 100 boys’ names for 2020 in Wales included Harri, Osian, Dylan, Jac and Tomos 👶 ow.ly/IoX250I6NqE
In December 2021, the average house price in Wales was at a record high of £205,000, while
🏠 Monmouthshire had the highest average house price in Wales, at £330,000
🏠 Blaenau Gwent had the lowest, at £113,000
We've led the development of a new method for estimating the number of excess deaths across UK countries.
Julie Stanborough talks us through the data released today and how this new method will give us a better understanding in this complex area ➡️ ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…
Expected number of deaths used to calculate excess mortality is now estimated from age-specific mortality rates rather than death counts, so changes in population size and age structure are taken into account. Our new method also accounts for trends in population mortality rates.
In 2023, the new method estimates 10,994 excess deaths in the UK, which is 20,448 fewer than the current method.
We've published a new article exploring the disability, health status, ethnic group, religion and employment of people of different sexual orientations (aged 16 years and over) in England and Wales using #Census2021 data.
#Census2021 included a voluntary question about sexual orientation of usual residents aged 16 and over:
▪️ 89.4% said they were straight or heterosexual
▪️ 3.2% identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual or another sexual orientation (LGB+)
▪️ 7.5% did not respond to the question
People who identified as LGB+ were younger on average, with a far higher proportion aged between 16 and 34 years (57.9%) than in the overall population of England and Wales (29.6%).
However, different LGB+ sexual orientation groups had markedly different age distributions.