FOI Ref: FOI/2022/4706
You asked
From the 2021 census, how many people stated Somalia as their country of birth?
From the 2021 census, how many people ethnically identify as Somali?
I will be grateful if there is any other way of narrowing down how many Somalis are in the UK.
We said
Thank you for your request.
The number of people that stated Somalia as their country of birth in the 2021 Census was 108,921. This equates to 0.2% of the population of England and Wales.
The number that wrote in Somali as their ethnic group in England and Wales was 150,649, which is 0.3%
This information is also available from our website via the following links:
- https://www.ons.gov.uk/releases/demographyandmigrationcensus2021inenglandandwales
- https://www.ons.gov.uk/releases/ethnicgroupnationalidentitylanguageandreligioncensus2021inenglandandwales
If you have any questions about this data, please contact our Census Customer Services team at census.customerservices@ons.gov.uk.
The figures provided are for England and Wales only. Scotland and Northern Ireland carried out their own Census. Their contact details are:
National Records of Scotland
Tel: 0131 3144299
Email: statisticscustomerservices@nrscotland.gov.uk
Website: www.nrscotland.gov.uk
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
Tel: 02890 255156
Email: census@nisra.gov.uk
Website: http://www.nisra.gov.uk/census
We will publish some UK Census data in the future. Publication timescales for this data are dependent on the availability of Scotland's Census data, as they delayed their census until 2022.