Indian community health profile

Overview

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

Although the focus of this report was health inequalities among the Indian 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 Indian population was defined by the census 2021 category on ethnic group ‘Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Indian’.

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: 1,864,318 (3.1% of the total population).
  • Birmingham: 66,519 (5.8% of the total population).

Health and wellbeing

You can learn more about the health and wellbeing needs, and the identified health inequalities of the Indian population by reading the Indian 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 see an interactive overview of the 2021 census findings for the top 19 ethnic groups, including Indian, on the community profiles dashboard, created by the Birmingham City Observatory.

Available resources

To support in your understanding of health inequalities among the Indian community, we have produced several resources including:

View all Indian community health profile downloads

Webinar

Watch our webinar which provides a summary of the demographics and key health inequalities among Central African communities:

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

Translated resources

We have translated some of the above resources into Punjabi:

Page last updated: 12 April 2024

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