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Black Welsh people

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Dame Shirley Bassey, singer

Black Welsh people are inhabitants of Wales who have an African or an Afro-Caribbean background and are black. Wales is home to one of the United Kingdom's oldest black communities, and Tiger Bay in Cardiff has housed a large Somali population since the development of the port in the 19th century. The 2011 census reported that there were more than 18,000 Welsh-African people in Wales (0.6% of the Welsh population).[1]

The first recorded black person to live in North Wales, of whom historians have detailed knowledge, was John Ystumllyn (died 1786), a Gwynedd gardener whose origins are unrecorded.[2]

Demographics

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Historical Population
YearPop.±%
19919,492—    
20017,069−25.5%
201118,276+158.5%
202127,554+50.8%
Source: Office for National Statistics
Black Welsh people by census data
Ethnic group 2021[3] 2011[4] 2001[5] 1991[6]
Number % Number % Number % Number %
Black Welsh people 27,554 0.89% 18,276 0.60% 7,069 0.24% 9,492 0.33%
—Black African 19,907 0.64% 11,887 0.39% 3,727 0.13% 2,671 0.09%
Black Caribbean 3,700 0.12% 3,809 0.12% 2,597 0.09% 3,348 0.12%
—Other Black 3,947 0.13% 2,580 0.08% 745 0.03% 3,473 0.12%
 Wales 3,107,494 100% 3,063,456 100% 2,903,085 100% 2,835,073 100%

Notable black Welsh people

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Sports

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Association football

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Athletics

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Rugby League

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Rugby Union

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Colin Charvis is the first Black Welsh person to captain the Wales rugby team

Boxing

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Music

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Film and television

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Others

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A video of Vaughan Gething representing the First Minister in a COVID-19 press conference in January 2021

See also

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