Africans resident and born in the UK and African churches in the UK

FOI Ref:​ FOI/2022/4588

You asked

Please provide data on Africans resident in the United Kingdom as well as Africans born in the UK.

I also need data on the number of African led/founded Churches in the United Kingdom.

Also, data on the number of current African students in the United Kingdom currently.

We said

Thank you for your request.

On 2 November 2022 we published the first of a series of topic summaries - demography and migration on the population and housing in England and Wales that took place 21 March 2021. This is accessible via the following link: 
https://www.ons.gov.uk/releases/demographyandmigrationcensus2021inenglandandwales. 
This release includes univariate tables on passports held and country of birth.

Multivariate data, which combines variables in a single dataset, such as country of birth by sex, will be published during phase two of the Census 2021 outputs release schedule.

Should you wish to receive updates regarding the Census 2021 releases, you can subscribe to receive our GovDelivery online newsletter.  You can subscribe to receive this by:

• Clicking on this link to register for GovDelivery updates
• Entering your email address in the field provided
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• Pressing submit at the bottom of the page.

The information available is for England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland carry out their own census, their contact details are as follows:

NATIONAL RECORDS OF SCOTLAND

Tel:    0131 3144299

Email: statisticscustomerservices@nrscotland.gov.uk

Website: www.nrscotland.gov.uk

NORTHERN IRELAND STATISTICS & RESEARCH AGENCY

Tel:   02890 255156

Email: census@nisra.gov.uk

Website: http://www.nisra.gov.uk/census

We have also included some datasets from our **2011 Census **in the associated downloads, which may be of use:

• DC2205EW - Country of birth by ethnic group by sex for England Wales, showing people born in the UK by ethnic group (African)
• DC6201EW - Economic activity by ethnic group by sex by age for England and Wales which details students

These were downloaded from our NOMIS webservice, which is run on behalf of ONS by the university of Durham. This webservice is accessible via the following link: https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/

UK Census tables, will be available once we have received Scotland's Census 2022 data (Scotland delayed their census till 2022).

Unfortunately, we do not collect information on the number of African led/founded Churches in the United Kingdom. However the The Council of African and Afro-Caribbean Churches UK may be better placed to help you their website is CACC Home - CACC - Council of African & Caribbean Churches UK (caccuk.org).

Should you have any questions about our Census data, please contact our Census Customer Services team at Census.customerservices@ons.gov.uk.