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In 2001 the single largest Afghan community in the UK was West Southall, where 1,121 Afghan-born people and many more of Afghan descent live. The locations with the fewest Afghan-born residents are Northern Ireland and Wales , which as subdivisions are estimated to have no greater than 100 Afghan residents each.
There were around 377,000 Afghan citizens residing in Germany at the end of 2022. [111] In the city of Hamburg alone being home to 50,000 [112] people of Afghan descent and Hamburg and has the largest Afghan community in Europe. They came first in 1990s due to Afghan conflict to Germany where many people decided to live in Hamburg. Today ...
As the British census only collects data based on national origin, Pashtuns usually self-report their ethnicity as Pakistani or Afghan for statistical purposes. [5] As of 2009, the total Pashtun population in the UK was estimated to number 100,000. [4] The language database Ethnologue reported at least 87,000 Pashto-speakers in the UK. [15]
The MoD’s Afghan Relocations and Assistance Police (Arap) scheme is for those Afghans who served alongside British forces and has brought 3,662 people to the UK so far this year.
The Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) formally opened in January 2022 with a pledge by the then-Conservative government to resettle up to 20,000 people “over the coming years”.
Nearly 3,000 Afghans, many of whom worked for the British army, have been stranded in Islamabad for months after the UK stopped chartering flights last year and demanded refugees find their own ...
A 2010 estimate for the whole of the UK shows that 4.76 million people (7.7 per cent) were born outside the EU and 2.24 million (3.6 per cent) were born in another EU member state. [12] The Office for National Statistics produces annual estimates of the size of the UK population by country of birth, based on the Annual Population Survey. The ...
The total number of Afghans brought to the UK under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) since it began in April reached around 10,000 people – double the number that was anticipated for 2021. [103] Two Afghans were confirmed to have been killed after being refused access to RAF flights out of the country. [104]