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British

Британцы

language area per Glottologcensus counts
77,148
Isle of Man, census 2016 (national and/or ethnic group, UN)
122,025
sum of censuses in 5 countries, 2010-2021
Indo-European
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Isle of Man: 77,148 people in the 2016 census.

Official figures exist for 5 countries; together they add up to 122,025. This is not an estimate of the world total: the censuses were held in different years (2010-2021) and define belonging differently, and countries without such data are not counted.

In Russia's 2020 census (reference date 1 October 2021), 1,167 people identified with the nationality "Британцы" (British)1. That is less than 0.01% of the 130,587,364 residents who stated a nationality.

Rosstat also assigns 8 other self-designations to this nationality (listed in Russian in the source table).

Main language: English. Glottolog classifies it in the Indo-European family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

Isle of Man2016 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «British» · [2]
77,148
Hong Kong2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «British» · [3]
37,243
Philippines2020 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «British» · [4]
6,357
Russia2021 · ethnicity / nationality · «Британцы» · [1]
1,167
Aruba2010 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «British» · [5]
110
United Kingdom2022 · ethnicity / nationality · «British only (national identity), Scotland» · [6]
13.9%
Sum across 5 countries122,025

In detail: Russia, 2021 census

Sex, urban and rural, Russian regions

Sex

Men 747 · 64.0%Women 420 · 36.0%

Urban and rural

Urban 1,069 · 91.6%Rural 98 · 8.4%

Where: the 10 regions with the largest numbers

Moscow (city)
411
Saint Petersburg (city)
114
Moscow Oblast
74
Republic of Dagestan
58
Krasnodar Krai
44
Samara Oblast
29
Republic of Tatarstan
27
Rostov Oblast
22
Novosibirsk Oblast
22
Sevastopol (as listed by Rosstat)
19

Source [1]: Rosstat, 2020 census, vol. 5, table 1

Languages and their lineage

English

  1. Indo-Europeanindo1319
  2. Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
  3. Germanicgerm1287
  4. Northwest Germanicnort3152
  5. West Germanicwest2793
  6. North Sea Germanicnort3175
  7. Anglo-Frisianangl1264
  8. Anglicangl1265
  9. Later Angliclate1254
  10. Middle-Modern Englishmerc1242
  11. Macro-Englishmacr1271
  12. Englishstan1293

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

PakistanisRussiansMarathiGermansSpaniardsMexicansUkrainiansEnglishIrishAmericansItaliansRomaniansNepali (Khas-Arya)DutchBelarusiansTajiksCzechsScotsSerbsBulgariansSlovaksArmeniansCubansLithuanians

Sources

  1. Rosstat. National composition of the population of the Russian Federation. Results of the 2020 All-Russian Population Census (reference date 1 October 2021), vol. 5, table 1. Tom5_tab1_VPN-2020.xlsx (archived copy)
  2. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Isle of Man, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  3. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. China, Hong Kong SAR, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  4. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Philippines, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  5. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Aruba, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  6. National Records of Scotland. Scotland's Census 2022 - Ethnic group, national identity, language and religion. https://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/2022-reports/scotland-s-census-2022-ethnic-group-nation…
  7. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)