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.
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