India remained the most common country of birth outside the UK in 2021 (920,000 people, or 1.5% of all usual residents) 🇮🇳
The number of people who were born in Romania grew by 576% since the previous census - from 80,000 in 2011 to 539,000 in 2021 🇷🇴
5.9 million usual residents (9.9%) held a non-UK passport 🛂
The most common non-UK passport held was Polish (760,000 or 1.3% of all usual residents) 🇵🇱
545,000 usual residents (0.9% of the population) had an address outside the UK one year before the Census.
This is a decrease from the 2011 Census (612,000 usual residents or 1.1% of the population), likely as a result of #COVID19 pandemic restrictions.
Since 2011, there has been an increase in the number and percentage of people born outside the UK and people with non-UK passports in each region of England and in Wales.
Use our interactive map to compare changes from 2011 to 2021 by local area 🔎
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.