Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Demographics of Wales as at the 2001 Census: 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 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% Sîkh: 0.07% Other religion: 0.24% No religion: 18.53% Not disclosed: 8.07% 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% This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.