Non-British population UK 2021 | Statista

In 2020/21 there were approximately 696,000 Polish nationals living in the United Kingdom, the highest non-British population at this time. Indian and Irish were the joint second-largest nationalities at approximately 370,000 people.

Non-British population of the United Kingdom in 2020/21, by nationality (in 1,000s)

Characteristic	Number of people in thousands
Poland	696
India	370
Republic of Ireland	370
Italy	342
Romania	342
Portugal	268
Spain	206
Pakistan	181
Nigeria	178
United States of America	166
Lithuania	153
France	149
Germany	135
China	124
Hungary	118
South Africa	101
Netherlands	92
Latvia	90
Australia	87
Bulgaria	79
Brazil	79
Canada	75
Greece	73
Bangladesh	70
Slovakia	58
Ghana	57
Philippines	53
Russia	49
New Zealand	48
Turkey	48
Sweden	45
Jamaica	44
Sri Lanka	41
Zimbabwe	40
Iran	37
Japan	36
Malaysia	35
Czechia	33
Denmark	32
Syria	28
Belgium	26
Egypt	25
Sudan	24
Cyprus (European Union)	21
Thailand	21
Albania	21
Israel	20
Somalia	20
Nepal	20
Iraq	20
Austria	19
Norway	19
Mexico	18
Afghanistan	18
Ukraine	18
Indonesia	17
Malta	16
Colombia	16
Zambia	15
Singapore	15

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September 2021

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2020 to 2021

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