Asian Welsh people explained

Asian Welsh people are people who live in Wales with Asian heritage, Welsh people of Asian heritage or people with mixed Asian and Welsh heritage. As with other parts of the United Kingdom, "Asian" typically refers to people of South Asian origin, in the census category this means those of Indian, Pakistani, or Bangladeshi heritage. There are also options for people of Chinese or other Asian ancestry - in which other South Asian backgrounds like Sri Lankan are included, as well as other Asian backgrounds, like Filipino, for example.

Demography

In 2016, the Welsh Assembly of the time (now Welsh Parliament/Senedd Cymru) was criticised for not having a "Welsh Asian" tick box for polling purposes on an equalities form issued in Wales, by the Welsh Assembly.[1]

The second largest "high-level" ethnicity category in Wales in 2021 was “Asian, Asian Welsh or Asian British”. 89,000 people identified as this category, which is 2.9% of the Welsh population. This compares to 2.3% in 2011.[2]

Ethnic groupYear
1991[3] [4] 2001[5] 2011[6] 2021[7]
Population%Population%Population%Population%
Asian or Asian British: Total24,3990.9%31,7151.1%70,1282.3%89,0283%
Asian or Asian British: Indian6,3840.2%8,2610.3%17,2560.6%21,0700.7%
Asian or Asian British: Pakistani5,7170.2%8,2870.3%12,2290.4%17,5340.6%
Asian or Asian British: Bangladeshi3,8200.1%5,4360.2%10,6870.3%15,3140.5%
Asian or Asian British: Chinese[8] 4,8010.2%6,2670.2%13,6380.4%14,4540.5%
Asian or Asian British: Asian Other3,6770.1%3,4640.1%16,3180.5%20,6560.7%

Notable Asian Welsh people

Acting and film

Art

Authors

Business

Medical

Politics

Singing

Sport

Television and radio

Other

In popular culture

The Indian Doctor, is a BBC comedy drama set in a 1960s Welsh mining village of Trefelin which shows the impact that a Delhi graduate has on the village.[10]

References

  1. Web site: Awan-Scully . Shazia . 2016-12-09 . I’m a Welsh Asian - so why doesn’t the Welsh Assembly have a box for me to tick? . 2022-12-04 . New Statesman . en-US.
  2. Web site: Ethnic group, national identity, language and religion in Wales (Census 2021) . 2022-12-04 . GOV.WALES . en.
  3. Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ; General Register Office for Scotland ; Registrar General for Northern Ireland (1997): 1991 Census aggregate data. UK Data Service (Edition: 1997). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5257/census/aggregate-1991-1 This information is licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence
  4. As UK Census data past 2001 is unavailable through the ONS website, it has been recommended to use archival census collection websites to obtain data. Data is taken from United Kingdom Casweb Data services of the United Kingdom 1991 Census on Ethnic Data for Wales (Table 6)
  5. Web site: Ethnic Statistics in Unitary authorities in Wales . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220107103548/https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20160105160709/http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/census-2001-key-statistics/urban-area-summary-results-for-local-authorities/urban-area-summary-results-for-local-authorities-ks06--ethnic-group.xls . 2022-01-07 . 2022-01-07 . webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk.
  6. Web site: Key Statistics for Unitary authorities in Wales . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220107103548/https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20160105160709/http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/2011-census/key-statistics-for-unitary-authorities-in-wales/rft-table-ks201ew.xls . 2022-01-07 . 2022-01-07 . webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk.
  7. Web site: Ethnic group - Office for National Statistics . 2022-11-29 . www.ons.gov.uk.
  8. In 2001, listed under the 'Chinese or other ethnic group' heading.
  9. Web site: 2018-03-30 . Banita Sandhu – the London undergrad moonlighting as a Bollywood star . 2022-12-04 . the Guardian . en.
  10. Web site: BBC One - The Indian Doctor . 2022-12-04 . BBC . en-GB.
  1. Web site: Awan-Scully . Shazia . 2016-12-09 . I’m a Welsh Asian - so why doesn’t the Welsh Assembly have a box for me to tick? . 2022-12-04 . New Statesman . en-US.
  2. Web site: Ethnic group, national identity, language and religion in Wales (Census 2021) . 2022-12-04 . GOV.WALES . en.
  3. Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ; General Register Office for Scotland ; Registrar General for Northern Ireland (1997): 1991 Census aggregate data. UK Data Service (Edition: 1997). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5257/census/aggregate-1991-1 This information is licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence
  4. As UK Census data past 2001 is unavailable through the ONS website, it has been recommended to use archival census collection websites to obtain data. Data is taken from United Kingdom Casweb Data services of the United Kingdom 1991 Census on Ethnic Data for Wales (Table 6)
  5. Web site: Ethnic Statistics in Unitary authorities in Wales . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220107103548/https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20160105160709/http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/census-2001-key-statistics/urban-area-summary-results-for-local-authorities/urban-area-summary-results-for-local-authorities-ks06--ethnic-group.xls . 2022-01-07 . 2022-01-07 . webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk.
  6. Web site: Key Statistics for Unitary authorities in Wales . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220107103548/https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20160105160709/http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/2011-census/key-statistics-for-unitary-authorities-in-wales/rft-table-ks201ew.xls . 2022-01-07 . 2022-01-07 . webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk.
  7. Web site: Ethnic group - Office for National Statistics . 2022-11-29 . www.ons.gov.uk.
  8. In 2001, listed under the 'Chinese or other ethnic group' heading.
  9. Web site: 2018-03-30 . Banita Sandhu – the London undergrad moonlighting as a Bollywood star . 2022-12-04 . the Guardian . en.
  10. Web site: BBC One - The Indian Doctor . 2022-12-04 . BBC . en-GB.

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