Wales

:For alternate meanings, see Wales (disambiguation)

Demographics

Demographics of Wales as at the 2001 Census:

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• Population: 2,903,085, Male: 1,403,782 Female: 1,499,303
• Percentage of the population born in:
• England: 20.32%
• Wales: 75.39%
• 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, which by far is the largest single denomination, followed by the Roman Catholic Eglwys Catholig Rufeinig and the Episcopalian (Anglican) Eglwys yng Nghymru with 3 % of the population each, and the Congregationalist Undeb yr Annibynwyr Cymraeg and the Presbyterian Eglwys Bresbyteraidd Cymru with 1 % of the population each.
• 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.
• According to www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/uk.htmlhttp://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/uk.html, 26% of the population are knowledgeable of Cymraeg.