Pakistani community health profile
Overview
The Pakistani 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 Pakistani community.
Although the focus of this report was health inequalities among the Pakistani 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 Pakistani population was defined by the census 2021 category on ethnic group ‘Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Pakistani’.
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: 1,587,819 (2.7% of the total population).
- Birmingham: 195,102 (17% of the total population).
Health and wellbeing
You can learn more about the health and wellbeing needs, and the identified health inequalities of the Pakistani population by reading the Pakistani 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 Pakistani, on the community profiles dashboard, created by the Birmingham City Observatory.
Available resources
To support in your understanding of health inequalities among the Pakistani community, we have produced several resources including:
- Pakistani community health profile report
- Pakistani health inequalities summary infographic
- Pakistani health inequalities summary presentation
- Pakistani health inequalities 2021 census update
View all Pakistani community health profile downloads
Webinar
Watch our webinar which provides a summary of the demographics and key health inequalities among the Pakistani community.
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 Urdu:
- Pakistani community health profile report (Urdu)
- Pakistani health inequalities summary infographic (Urdu)
- Pakistani health inequalities 2021 census update (Urdu audio)
Page last updated: 8 April 2024
