How people see themselves was also captured, with a slight decrease in people who identified with at least one UK national identity but a large fall in those identifying as “English only”.The number of people who see themselves as being English-only fell dramatically from 58% to just 15% of the population in 2021. Conversely more than half of the population described themselves as “British only” last year compared with 19% a decade ago.
The proportion of people speaking English or Welsh as their main language fell only slightly from 92.3% to 91.1% in the past 10 years. But while Polish has remained the second-most common main language there have been many other changes in the past decade.The most noticeable has been in the number of people whose first language is Romanian, with 472,000 speakers now compared to 68,000 a decade ago. Portuguese, Spanish and Italian speakers have all seen their populations increase.
But Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali and Arabic are on the decline, as is French, which fell out of the top 10 other main spoken languages this year.
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