Southeast Asians in the United Kingdom

Southeast Asians in the United Kingdom

Total population
England and  Wales only: 267,288 – 0.45% (2021)[1] Filipino – 162,138 – 0.27% (2021) Thai – 39,962 – 0.07% (2021) Vietnamese – 37,458 – 0.06% (2021) Malays – 12,872 – 0.02% (2021) Burmese – 7,514 – 0.01% (2021) Indonesians – 7,344 – 0.01% (2021) Does not include any Southeast Asians who may be in the 'Other Ethnic Group' as provided by the Office for National Statistics for the 2021 census.
Regions with significant populations
London, Belfast, Liverpool, Manchester, Oxford, Cambridge, Glasgow, Edinburgh
Languages
Tagalog/Filipino – 60,899 Thai – 22,966 Vietnamese – 18,518 Malay – 8,014 Number of speakers in England and Wales as a main language, of all usual residents aged 3 and over, from the 2021 census.[2]
Religion
Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Non-religious, others
Related ethnic groups
Asians

Southeast Asians living in the United Kingdom have been present in the country for several centuries, arriving from Southeast Asia, and primarily originating from countries and territories such as the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Burma, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.