30.08.2012: Births in England and Wales by Parents’ Country of Birth, 2011 – Released: 30 August 2012
Births in England and Wales by Parents’ Country of Birth, 2011 – Released: 30 August 2012
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• Poland remains the most common country of birth for non-UK born mothers in 2011
In 2011, Poland, Pakistan and India were the three most common countries of birth for non-UK
born mothers. Between 2001 and 2006 Pakistan, India and Bangladesh were consistently the three
most common countries. However, in 2007, Poland replaced Bangladesh as the third most common
country, rising to second place in 2008 and first place in 2010.
Poland first appeared in the top 10 most common countries of birth for non-UK born mothers in 2005
when it was ninth. In 2001 there were 896 live births in England and Wales to Polish born mothers,
compared with 1,830 in 2004 when Poland joined the EU and 20,495 in 2011.
However, of the Polish-born population in the UK in the year ending December
2010, 86 per cent were aged 16 to 64 (ONS, 2011a), compared with the mid-2010 estimate of
65 per cent of the UK population as a whole (ONS, 2011b). This situation is very different from
2003, before Poland joined the EU, when only 55 per cent of Polish-born people in the UK were
aged 16 to 64 (ONS, 2011a). It should be noted that Poland accounts for more than half of the total
population of the A8 countries (see background note 7) that joined the EU in 2004 (see international
comparisons within Vital Statistics: Population and Health reference tables). This partially explains
why the Polish-born population in the UK has increased so much more than other A8 countries.
The top ten most common countries of birth of non-UK born fathers have been the same since 2008.
Pakistan is the most common, followed by Poland, India and Bangladesh. The top 10 countries of
birth of non-UK born fathers in 2011 are similar to those of non-UK born mothers, with the inclusion
of Ghana rather than Lithuania and some differences in ranks.
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Release: Parents’ Country of Birth, England and Wales, 2011 – Released: 30 August 2012
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Table 2 Live births (numbers and percentages) for the ten most common countries of birth of mother for non-UK born mothers, 2002-2011
Country of birth of mother – Poland
2011 – 20,495
2010 – 19,762
2009 – 18,159
2008 – 16,101
2007 – 11,952
2006 - 6,620
2005 - 3,403
Country of birth of father – Poland
2011 – 16,150
2010 – 15,619
2009 – 14,574
2008 – 12,697
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| Summary of Table 3 Live births: country of birth of mother and of father, 2011 – Relating to Poland | ||
| Country of birth of mother | Country of birth of father | |
| Poland: Total | 20,495 | 16,150 |
| United Kingdom1 | 2,191 | 301 |
| Total outside United Kingdom | 17,535 | 15,849 |
| EU | 15,929 | 15,589 |
| New EU2 | 15,598 | 15,537 |
| Poland | 15,313 | 15,313 |
| Rest of Europe (non EU)3 | 250 | 56 |
| Africa4 | 651 | 69 |
| North Africa | 161 | 4 |
| Western Africa | 233 | 18 |
| Central Africa | 30 | 5 |
| Eastern Africa | 133 | 25 |
| Southern Africa | 93 | 16 |
| The Americas and the Caribbean | 173 | 54 |
| North America | 31 | 9 |
| Central America | 9 | 6 |
| South America | 89 | 31 |
| Caribbean | 44 | 8 |
| Middle East and Asia5 | 489 | 77 |
| Middle East | 178 | 3 |
| Central Asia | 2 | 5 |
| Eastern Asia | 9 | 23 |
| Southern Asia | 271 | 13 |
| India | 112 | 7 |
| Pakistan | 79 | - |
| Bangladesh | 13 | - |
| South East Asia | 29 | 33 |
| Antarctica and Oceania6 | 43 | 4 |
| Australasia | 40 | 4 |
| Other Oceania | 3 | - |
| Not stated | 769 | - |
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