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White people in the United Kingdom are a multi-ethnic group consisting of European UK residents who identify as and are perceived to be 'white people'. White people constitute the historical and current majority of the people living in the United Kingdom, with 83.0% of the population identifying as white in the 2021 United Kingdom census.
Since the 2011 UK Census was returned, London contained by far the lowest percentage of English and other White British people of all the UK regions, where they made up less than half of the population in 24 of the 32 boroughs, including: Newham (16.7%), Brent (18.0%), Ealing (30.4%), Harrow (30.9%), Hackney (31.2%), Redbridge (35.2%) and Tower ...
The 1991 UK census was the first to include a question on ethnicity. [15] [16] The 2001 UK Census classified ethnicity into several groups: White, Black, Asian, Mixed, Chinese and Other. [17] [18] These categories formed the basis for all National Ethnicity statistics until the 2011 Census results were issued. [18]
White British proportion of the population from 2001 to 2011. In 2013, Demos published research analyzing the 2011 United Kingdom census. The UK-based think tank detailed how "departing White British are replaced by immigration or by the natural growth of the minority population.
A White. English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or British; Irish; Gypsy or Irish Traveller; Roma; Any other White background; B Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups.
White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller is an ethnicity classification used in the 2011 United Kingdom Census.In the 2011 census, the White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller population was 63,193 or about 0.1 percent of the total population of the country.
The term "White race" or "White people", defined by their light skin among other physical characteristics, entered the major European languages in the later seventeenth century, when the concept of a "unified White" achieved greater acceptance in Europe, in the context of racialized slavery and social status in the European colonies.
Estimations of white and non-white population in England and Wales, 1951-1968 [29] Ethnic group (reported as 'Area of origin') 1951 [note 4] 1961 [note 4] 1966 mid-1968 Estimates based solely off of immigrant population [note 4] Total estimated (including estimates of those born in the UK) [note 5] Population % Population % Population ...