Every ten years since 1801 – save for a wartime interruption in 1941 – the UK government has conducted a national census of England and Wales. This is a big event. The data collated in the last survey ...

Muslim population stood at 3.9 million or 6.5 percent of the total UK population in 2021, up from 4.9 percent in 2011.

Romania has jumped from being the 86th most common non-UK country of birth to the fourth in the space of 20 years, while Jamaica and Kenya have tumbled out of the top 10, census data shows. Other new ...

Business users breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday after the UK’s statistics authorities announced they have decided against scrapping the 200-year-old census. They plan instead to replace paper ...

A full set of UK-wide data collected for the 2021 census has been made available for the first time. Many details from the census have already been released, revealing a wealth of population ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK should continue to conduct its traditional once-a-decade census, the country’s statistics authority said ...

The proportion of people in England and Wales declaring they had “no religion” has jumped by more than one-fifth over the last 20 years, census figures have revealed. The 10-yearly survey by the ...

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