DEMOGRAPHY OF WALES

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'Demographics of Wales' as at the 2001 UK Census:

★ Population: 2,903,085, Male: 1,403,782 Female: 1,499,303

★ Percentage of the population born in:

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★ Wales: 75.39%

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★ England: 20.32%

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★ Scotland: 0.84%

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★ Northern Ireland: 0.27%

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★ Republic of Ireland: 0.44%

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★ Fertility Rate: 1.84 (2006)[1]

★ Ethnic groups:

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★ White: British: 95.99%

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★ White: Irish: 0.61%

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★ White: other: 1.28%

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★ Mixed: white and black: 0.29%

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★ Mixed: white and Asian: 0.17%

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★ Mixed: other: 0.15%

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★ Asian:

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★ Indian/British Indian: 0.28%

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★ Pakistani/British Pakistani: 0.29%

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★ Bangladeshi/British Bangladeshi: 0.19%

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★ Other Asian: 0.12%

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★ Black: 0.25%

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★ Chinese: 0.40%

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★ Percentage of the British 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:

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★ Christian: 71.9%

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★ Buddhist: 0.19%

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★ Hindu: 0.19%

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★ Jewish: 0.08%

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★ Muslim: 0.75%

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★ Sikh: 0.07%

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★ Other religion: 0.24%

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★ No religion: 18.53%

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★ Not disclosed: 8.07%

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★ The largest single denomination of Wales is Calvinist Methodism (Presbyterian Church of Wales), followed by the (Anglican) Church in Wales with 30% of the population, the Roman Catholic Church with 3% and the Congregationalist Union of Welsh Independents with 1% of the population.

★ Age structure of the population:

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★ 0–4: 167,903

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★ 5–7: 108,149

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★ 8–9: 77,176

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★ 10–14: 195,976

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★ 15: 37,951

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★ 16–17: 75,234

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★ 18–19: 71,519

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★ 20–24: 169,493

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★ 25–29: 166,348

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★ 30–44: 605,962

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★ 45–59: 569,676

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★ 60–64: 152,924

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★ 65–74: 264,191

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★ 75–84: 182,202

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★ 85–89: 38,977

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★ 90+: 19,404

★ Knowledge of the Welsh language:

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★ Percentage of the population aged 3 or more knowing spoken Welsh only: 4.93%

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★ Percentage of the population aged 3 or more speaking Welsh but not reading or writing it: 2.83%

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★ Percentage of the population aged 3 or more speaking and reading Welsh but not writing it: 1.37%

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★ Percentage of the population aged 3 or more speaking, reading, and writing Welsh: 16.32%

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★ Percentage of the population aged 3 or more with some other skills combination: 2.98%

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★ Percentage of the population aged 3 or more with no knowledge of Welsh: 71.57%

★ In Gwynedd, Anglesey, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire, Welsh speakers are in the majority.

★ Gwynedd has the highest ''proportion'' of Welsh speakers, but Carmarthenshire has the highest ''number'' of them in any one principal area.