Demographics of Wales

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Demographics of Wales as at the 2001 UK Census:

• Population: 2,903,085, Male: 1,403,782 Female: 1,499,303
• Percentage of the population born in:
  • Wales: 75.39%
  • England: 20.32%
  • Scotland: 0.84%
  • Northern Ireland: 0.27%
  • Republic of Ireland: 0.44%
• Ethnic groups:
  • White: British: 95.99%
  • White: Irish: 0.61%
  • White: other: 1.28%
  • Mixed: white and black: 0.29%
  • Mixed: white and Asian: 0.17%
  • Mixed: other: 0.15%
  • Asian:
    • Indian/British Indian: 0.28%
    • Pakistani/British Pakistani: 0.29%
    • Bangladeshi/British Bangladeshi: 0.19%
    • Other Asian: 0.12%
  • Black: 0.25%
  • Chinese: 0.40%
  • Percentage of the British population self-identifying as Welsh: 14.39% (controversially, there was no question on the Census form asking this—people had to write this in).
• Religion:
  • Christian: 71.9%
  • Buddhist: 0.19%
  • Hindu: 0.19%
  • Jewish: 0.08%
  • Muslim: 0.75%
  • Sikh: 0.07%
  • Other religion: 0.24%
  • No religion: 18.53%
  • Not disclosed: 8.07%
  • The largest single denomination of Wales is Calvinist Methodism (Presbyterian Church of Wales), followed by the (Anglican) Church in Wales with 30% of the population, the Roman Catholic Church with 3% and the Congregationalist Union of Welsh Independents with 1% of the population.
• Age structure of the population:
  • 0–4: 167,903
  • 5–7: 108,149
  • 8–9: 77,176
  • 10–14: 195,976
  • 15: 37,951
  • 16–17: 75,234
  • 18–19: 71,519
  • 20–24: 169,493
  • 25–29: 166,348
  • 30–44: 605,962
  • 45–59: 569,676
  • 60–64: 152,924
  • 65–74: 264,191
  • 75–84: 182,202
  • 85–89: 38,977
  • 90+: 19,404
• Knowledge of the Welsh language:
  • Percentage of the population aged 3 or more knowing spoken Welsh only: 4.93%
  • Percentage of the population aged 3 or more speaking Welsh but not reading or writing it: 2.83%
  • Percentage of the population aged 3 or more speaking and reading Welsh but not writing it: 1.37%
  • Percentage of the population aged 3 or more speaking, reading, and writing Welsh: 16.32%
  • Percentage of the population aged 3 or more with some other skills combination: 2.98%
  • Percentage of the population aged 3 or more with no knowledge of Welsh: 71.57%
• In Gwynedd, Anglesey, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire, Welsh speakers are in the majority.
• Gwynedd has the highest proportion of Welsh speakers, but Carmarthenshire has the highest number of them in any one principal area.