The Office of National Statistics [The UK Statistics Authority] has released a white paper, ‘Help Shape Our Future”, which sets out its proposals for conducting the 2021 Census in England and Wales. One section of this specifically looks at the question of adding new tick-boxes of ethnicity, two of which are currently tick-boxes in the…
January 10, 2014 Census figures reveal a ‘startling’ shift in Britain’s demographic trend with almost a tenth of babies and toddlers born in England and Wales being Muslim. The percentage of Muslims among the under-fives is almost twice as high as in the general population. Less than one in 200 over 85s are Muslims…
07 July 2013 The number of Muslims in the Canary Islands has doubled in the last five years. If in 2008 there were 30,000 people in the archipelago that professed the religion of Islam, in 2013 the figure has risen up to 66,969 Muslims, representing an increase of 55,2%. But this boom is striking in…
In total there are 14, 296 Muslims residing in the Galician community, according to the latest population census of the Union of Islamic Communities in Spain (UCIDE), which is more than double of the 6,709 recorded by the organization in its balance of 2008. Still they only represent 1% of the total of Muslim population…
A fresh analysis of the 2011 census has shown that Christian faith in the UK is declining rapidly amongst the British-born population, whilst belief in Islam has dramatically increased. A report published by the Office for National Statistics revealed that the percentage of people following a Christian faith dropped from 71.7 per cent in 2001…
