Birthplace According to 2016 ONS Estimates, Other Whites enumerated 4,167,000, or 6.3% of the population in the United Kingdom. However, their numbers, in line with a slight population decline in Polish and Romanian citizens in Britain, fell to 3,667,997 in England & Wales at the
2021 United Kingdom census. In the 2001 UK Census, the majority of people living in
England and
Wales ticking the 'Other White' ethnic group specified their ethnicity as European. Four out of five of the 'Other White' category (i.e. not British or Irish) were born overseas. A third were born in a Western European country other than the UK, and one in seven were born in an Eastern European country. Outside of
Europe, countries derived from
former British colonies such as
Canada,
Australia,
New Zealand,
South Africa and the
United States were among the top ten birthplaces (which included the UK itself). This suggested that, in 2001, significant numbers of
Canadian Britons,
Australian Briton,
New Zealand Britons,
American Britons and
South African Britons, such as those born abroad to British parents and returned to the UK as minors, identified as White Other. It may also be that those who identify as
white Canadians,
white Australians,
white New Zealanders,
white Americans or
white South Africans have migrated to the country as adults.
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