Unlike for previous censuses, data for the latest survey was not collected on the same date across the whole of the UK.

2. The UK population at mid-2021. We estimate the UK population in mid-2021 to be 67.0 million (67,026,292). This is an aggregate of the estimates for the four constituent countries.

The 2021 census was the first time a voluntary question on gender identity was included and showed that 262,000 people in England and Wales – 0.5% of the population aged 16 and over – reported ...

For the first time fewer than half of people in England and Wales describe themselves as Christian, the Census 2021 has revealed. The proportion of people who said they were Christian was 46.2% ...

The UK population was estimated to be 67.6 million people in mid-2022, up by 4.3 million since mid-2011. The figures show the median average age of people in the UK in the year to June 2022 was 40 ...

Census 2021 in numbers: Key changes in England and Wales population explained. Major changes have been seen across England and Wales in the last decade, including religion and ethnicity ...

The religion question was voluntary on the 2021 census but was answered by 94.0% of the overall population of England and Wales, up from 92.9% in 2011, the ONS added.

Some 46.2% of the population of England and Wales described themselves as Christian on the day of the 2021 census, down from 59.3% a decade earlier, the ONS said.

The percentage of the population who described themselves as having a non-UK identity rose to 9.7%, compared with 8% in 2011. Polish remained top with Romanian second - rising from 16th place in ...

The 2021 survey, carried out on March 21 last year, was filled out by more than 24 million households across England and Wales. More data from the census is set to be published in stages over the ...