REGIONS

  • London has the UK’s biggest ethnic population, with one out of every three people describing themselves as non-white. In total there are more than two million people from black and minority ethnic groups in the capital, of which 1.4m are of working age.

  • It is a growing minority. Estimates show that in the next decade black and minority ethnic groups will make up 80 percent of the increase in the capital’s working age population. More than a quarter of all public sector workers in London are from ethnic minorities. In the health service more than a third of all NHS employees are Black or Asian people.

  • Minority groups have more people of working age and a younger age structure than the mainstream population, with one out of every five under the age of 15. Only around five percent of Black and Asian people are aged over 65, compared with 16 percent among the mainstream group.

  • After London, the second biggest ethnic populations are in the
    West Midlands (18 percent),
    North West (13 percent)
    and Yorkshire (7 percent).

  • Nearly four out five Black Africans and three out of five Black Caribbeans live in London. More than half of all Bangladeshis are also in the capital.

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