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Description	English: Ethnic demography of the United Kingdom from 1951 - 2011 in a pie chart. Data is taken from the United Kingdom census forms on Ethnicity and estimates for the years prior to the question. Note: From 1951 to 1981, percentages used are estimates for the non-White population. Northern Ireland has not been included within the data for 1951-1991 due to the fact that estimates did not include it for 1951 to 1981 and for 1991 did not take an ethnic census within its own jurisdiction. However this does not distort the figures by much (around 0.2% increase for Whites if population data is substituted in place) due to the fact the jurisdiction had virtually no ethnic minorities. Figures vary from source to source on the exact amount of non-Whites in each decade but do give a general range of the amount. I have attempted to give the best ranges using a variety of sources for each decade. It should be noted however this does not distort the percentage by much. When 'DCoIP' is indicated, I am refering to the main source given for estimations within this file, see Source below. 1939 (not included in file): 7,000 (Source: 1, 2; Page 14 (3) "As recently as 1939, the permanent Black and Asian population was officially estimated at 7,000", 3) 1951: 30,000 (Source: 1), 50,000, 0.1% (Source: DCoIP, 2; p22 "less than 50,000", 3, 4) to 94,500, 0.2% (Source: 1) or 103,000 (Source: 1) 1961: 282,000 (Source: 1) to 400,000 (Source: DCoIP, 2) or 415,000 (Source: 1). Atleast less than 500,000 for higher bound (Source: 1, p22) 1971: 1.2 million (Source: 1, 2, 3) to 1.34 million (Source: DCoIP, 2, 3) or 1.5 million (Source: 1, 2, 3) 1981: 2.09 million, 4% (Source: DCoIP, 2, 3, 4, 5), 2.2 million (Source: 1, 2, 3) or 2.43 million (Source: 1)
Date	27 May 2022
Source	Own work, data used as described in description; 1951 to 1971: data taken from The Demographic Characteristics of Immigrant Populations by the Council of Europe (Page 506, Table 1) for estimates. 1981: Detailed estimates from Ethnicity in the 1991 census, p34-79, 1991: (Ethnicity in the 1991 census, p34-79 or NOMIS: 1991 census - local base statistics; Table 6 or Casweb), 2001: (1, 2, 3), 2011: (1, 2, 3), 2021/2022: (1, 2, 3, 4)
Author	Tweedle

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	20:19, 1 March 2025	1,920 × 1,755 (935 KB)	Tweedle	Slight adjustment using Ethnicity in the 1991 census volume 3's detailed estimates which gives us a % for each non-White group
	18:21, 22 May 2024	1,920 × 1,755 (947 KB)	Tweedle	mistake on original upload of new version, had used wrong starting file. Title and link to file returned
	14:11, 22 May 2024	1,920 × 1,755 (923 KB)	Tweedle	updated to include 2021/2022
	11:30, 14 January 2024	1,200 × 1,097 (459 KB)	Tweedle	Source link
	10:53, 15 June 2023	1,200 × 1,097 (223 KB)	Tweedle	titled chart
	21:42, 16 December 2022	1,200 × 1,097 (219 KB)	Tweedle	size of both labels and the key is bigger
	15:21, 16 December 2022	1,200 × 1,097 (204 KB)	Tweedle	extends back to 1951 now based off of estimates for those periods
	21:36, 21 September 2022	1,200 × 1,097 (201 KB)	Tweedle	font
	17:13, 3 September 2022	1,200 × 1,097 (184 KB)	Tweedle	style
	07:40, 17 June 2022	1,200 × 1,009 (246 KB)	Tweedle	re-corrected figures again