Caribbean Commonwealth community health profile

Overview

The Caribbean community health profile has identified and summarised the national and local evidence related to the health, lifestyle behaviours and wider determinants of health that affect the Caribbean community.

Although the focus of this report was health inequalities among the Caribbean community in Birmingham, the limited available information on health inequalities has resulted in data being used from the UK and internationally, where available.

Community definition

Within this community health profile, the Caribbean population was defined by the census 2021 category on ethnic group ‘Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean: Caribbean’.

Population size

Population size estimates have been taken from the 2021 census for England and Wales, using data by ethnic group (20 category dataset).

  • England and Wales: 623,119 (1.1% of the total population).
  • Birmingham: 44,718 (3.9% of the total population).

Health and wellbeing

To find out more about the health and wellbeing needs, and the identified health inequalities of the Caribbean population, download the Caribbean community health profile report.

The full profile report does not yet include analysis from the 2021 census. This will be updated at a later date.

You can also find an interactive overview of the 2021 census findings for the top 19 ethnic groups, including Caribbean, on the community profiles dashboard, created by the Birmingham City Observatory.

Available resources

To help you understand the health inequalities among the Caribbean community, we have produced several resources including:

View all Caribbean community health profile downloads.

Webinar

Watch our webinar which provides a summary of the demographics and key health inequalities among the Caribbean community.

You can switch on subtitles once you have started to play the video. A menu will appear on the video screen.

Page last updated: 9 April 2024

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