 A portrait of a Romani woman by English painter Octavius Oakley | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
 United Kingdom: ≈ 225,000 – 0.4% (European Commission estimate, 2012)[1][2] England: 99,122 – 0.2% (2021)[3] Scotland: Unavailable  Wales: 1,842 – 0.06% (2021)[3]Northern Ireland: 1,529 – 0.08% (2021)[4] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| North West England and Greater London | |
| Languages | |
| Angloromani, Scottish Cant, Kalá | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity |
Romani people have been recorded in the United Kingdom since at least the early 16th century. There are estimated to be around 225,000 Romani residing in the UK. This includes the Romanichal, Welsh Kale and a sizeable population of Eastern European Roma, who immigrated into the UK in the late 1990s/early 2000s and after EU expansion in 2004.[5][6] They are considered part of the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) community.[7] Romani people in the UK are predominantly Christian, with 71.8% of English and Welsh Romani identifying as Christian in the 2021 census compared to 46.2% of the wider population.[8][9]
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- ^ "MS-B01: Ethnic group". Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency. 22 September 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
- ^ "World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples - United Kingdom : Roma/Gypsies/Travellers".
- ^ Roma / Gypsies / Travellers - Minority Rights Group
- ^ Acton, Thomas; Acton, Jennifer; Cemlyn, Sara; Ryder, Andrew (2016). "Why we need to up our Numbers Game: A non-parametric approach to the methodology and politics of the demography of Roma, Gypsy, Traveller and other ethnic populations" (PDF). Radical Statistics (114). Retrieved 7 January 2024.
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