The 19 ethnic groups in England and Wales Within the "White" ethnic group, 74.4% (44.4 million) of usual residents in England and Wales identified their ethnic group as "English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or British".
The United Kingdom is an ethnically diverse society. The largest ethnic group in the United Kingdom is White British, followed by Asian British. Ethnicity in the United Kingdom is formally recorded at the national level through a census.
White British is an ethnicity classification used for the native white population identifying as English, Scottish, Welsh, Cornish, Northern Irish, or British in the United Kingdom Census. In the 2011 census, the White British population was 49,997,686, 81.5% of Great Britain's total population.
Black British people are a multi-ethnic group of British citizens of either African or Afro-Caribbean descent.
The British ethnicity is a compilation of Celtic, Germanic, Norman, and Roman influences, distributed pretty homogenously across the white population. Britain does have ethnic minorities of Asian/Asian British and Black/Caribbean/Black British, as well as a growing number of non-British Europeans.
The term Other White is a classification of ethnicity in the United Kingdom and has been used in documents such as the 2011 UK Census to describe people who self-identify as white (chiefly European) persons who are not of the English, Welsh, Scottish, Romani or Irish ethnic groupings.
Mixed is an ethnic group category that was first introduced by the United Kingdom's Office for National Statistics for the 2001 Census. Colloquially it refers to British citizens or residents whose parents are of two or more different races or ethnic backgrounds.
The 2021 Census data shows that: the total population of England and Wales was 59.6 million. 48.7 million people (81.7%) were from white ethnic groups – 44.4 million of those identified with the white British group (74.4% of the population) and 3.7 million with the white 'other' ethnic group (6.2%)
Nationality refers to the country of citizenship. Nationality is sometimes used to mean ethnicity, although the two are technically different. People can share the same nationality but be of different ethnic groups and people who share an ethnic identity can be of different nationalities.
White culture in the United Kingdom is the culture of White British (English, Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish) people, White Irish people, Irish Traveller people, and all Other White people.
The English largely descend from two main historical population groups: the West Germanic tribes, including the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Frisians who settled in Southern Britain following the withdrawal of the Romans, and the partially Romanised Celtic Britons who already lived there.
Ethnicity: Your ethnicity refers to your background heritage, culture, religion, ancestry or sometimes the country where you were born.
Government data about the UK's different ethnic groups. 82% of people in England and Wales are white, and 18% belong to a black, Asian, mixed or other ethnic group (2021 Census data).
English refers only to people and things that are from England specifically. Thus, to be English is not to be Scottish, Welsh nor Northern Irish. British, on the other hand, refers to anything from Great Britain, meaning anyone who lives in Scotland, Wales or England are considered British.
Those identifying as White British accounted for 43.4% of London's population compared with 78.4% for England and Wales overall. Excluding White British, the most common ethnic groups in London were Other White (14.6%), Black African (7.9%), and Indian (7.0%).
As of April 2022, there were about 5 billion global Internet users, constituting 63% of the world population. The Han Chinese are the world's largest single ethnic group, constituting over 19% of the global population in 2011.
'Race' is a social construct and not a biological fact as explained in this BBC Video. Race covers: nationality (for example, British), national origin (for example, English), skin colour and ethnicity or 'ethnic origin'. Ethnic origin is defined by a shared history/ancestry, language, or distinctive shared culture.
Beginning in 1989, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) changed their standards for determining a child's race. Since that time, a child's race has been determined by the race of the mother as reported on the birth certificate.
OMB requires five minimum categories: White, Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander.
White. The term usually used to describe people with European ancestral origins who identify, or are identified, as White (sometimes called European, or in terms of racial classifications, the group known as Caucasian or Caucasoid).
As of 2020, White Americans are the racial majority, with non-Hispanic whites representing 57.8% of the population. Hispanic and Latino Americans are the largest ethnic minority, comprising 18.7% of the population, while Black or African Americans are the second largest racial minority, making up 12.1%.
The bottom line? Caucasian is included in White. White is not exclusive to being Caucasian. It is recommended to use terms that are more accurate, such as “European American” in place of using Caucasian to signify a geographical and American ancestry.