Regions with significant populations | |
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47.6 million (67.1% identified with English identity)[1] in England and Wales | |
Significant English diaspora in | |
United States | 25,536,410[2] |
Australia | 8,385,928[3] |
Canada | 6,263,880[4] |
South Africa | 1,000,000[citation needed] |
New Zealand | 72,204–210,915[5] |
India | 300,000[6] |
Languages | |
English | |
Religion | |
Christianity: Predominantly Protestantism (Anglicanism • Methodism • Baptists • Congregationalism • Other Protestants) • Mormonism • Roman Catholicism Neopaganism (including Wicca) • Irreligious |
The English diaspora consists of English people and their descendants who emigrated from England. The diaspora is concentrated in the English-speaking world in countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, South Africa, and to a lesser extent, Zimbabwe, India, Zambia and continental Europe.
The 2011 England and Wales census reports that in England and Wales 32.4 million White British people associated themselves with an English identity alone and 37.6 million identified themselves with an English identity either on its own or mixed with other identities, being 57.7% and 67.1% respectively of the population of England and Wales
The 2018 census reported 72,204 identified with English origins and 210,915 were born in England