The data, published on Thursday, focuses on main language, passports and national identity, which all points to an increasingly diverse population.
Census figures detailing the national identity, passports and religious make-up of Northern Ireland show a population more diverse than ever before.
In terms of passports, almost 60% of people had a British passport while just over 20% had an Irish one. Dr David Marshall, director of Census and population statistics at the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, said the differing age profiles of the Protestant and Catholic communities was key to understanding the shifting numbers."What we found in the 2011 census was that the Catholic population was on average younger, so there was essentially a higher number of births in the Catholic population than deaths.
Demography The Northern Ireland usually resident population increased by 5.1% from 2011 to 2021. The Census 2021 population is recorded at 1,903,175 people, up from 1,810,863 people in 2011.The number of people aged 65 or more rose by over 60,000, to nearly one-third of a million people in Census 2021, a near 25% increase on 2011 and demonstrates the scale of population change due to ageing.The share of the Northern Ireland population represented by people aged 65 years and over stood at 17.
On census day 2021, there were 768,810 occupied households in Northern Ireland, up 9.3% from the 703,275 recorded ten years earlier. In 2021 the number of people with a white ethnic group was 1,837,600 . The largest groups were Mixed Ethnicities , Black , Indian , Chinese , and Filipino . Irish Traveller, Arab, Pakistani and Roma ethnicities also each constituted 1,500 people or more.
The number of people holding a UK passport solely or jointly stood at one million, a decrease from 1.07m a decade earlier. The most prevalent main languages other than English were Polish , Lithuanian , Irish , Romanian and Portuguese . In addition 17.4% had ‘No religion’, a marked increase on 2011 of 10.1% and points to the increased secularisation of our population.
National identity In the latest Census, 814,600 people living here identified solely or along with other national identities as ‘British’, down from 876,600 people in 2011.
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