Latin American community health profile

Overview

The Latin American community health profile has identified and summarised the national and local evidence relating to the health, lifestyle behaviours and wider determinants of health that affect Latin American communities.

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

Community definition

Latin America is considered to be all the countries in South America, Central America, and a selection in the Caribbean, as well as Mexico.

The Latin American community health profile report presents data for populations that are resident in Birmingham and/or England and Wales that have origins in Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Puerto Rico.

We acknowledge that using country of birth data will only be applicable to first generation migrants, however categorising the population in this way enabled analysis of a greater number of datasets.

Birmingham Public Health’s demographic data collection tool suggests inclusion of a ‘Latin American’ ethnic group option and an open response question on ‘country/countries of heritage’ to capture Latin American populations more accurately.

For more information about how Birmingham City Council is standardising demographic data, see the demographics questionnaire.

Population size

Population size estimates have been taken from the 2021 census for England and Wales, using the 190-country category dataset for country of birth.

England and Wales

Overall, there were 278,096 people born in Latin American countries living in England and Wales, the most common countries of birth within this included:

  • Brazil: 111,478
  • Colombia: 37,833
  • Venezuela: 19,981
  • Ecuador: 19,613

Birmingham

Overall, there were 3,268 people born in Latin American countries living in Birmingham, the most common countries of birth within this included (60-category dataset only due to small population size):

  • Brazil: 1,090
  • Other Caribbean: 667
  • Venezuela: 218
  • Argentina: 195

Health and wellbeing

To find out more about the health and wellbeing needs, and the identified health inequalities of Latin American communities, download the Latin American Community Health Profile report.

Available resources

To help you understand more about the health inequalities among Latin American communities, we have produced several resources, including:

View all Latin American community health profile downloads

Webinar

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

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

Page last updated: 17 April 2024 

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