Bangladeshi community health profile

Bangladeshi community health profile

Overview

The Bangladeshi 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 Bangladeshi community.

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

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: 644,881 (1.1% of total population).
  • Birmingham: 482,232 (4.2% of the total population).

The UK has the largest Bengali population outside of Bangladesh and West Bengal.

Health and wellbeing

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

The full profile report does not yet include analysis from the 2021 census, but will be updated in the future.

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

Available resources

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

View all Bangladeshi community health profile downloads.

Webinar

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

View all Bangladeshi community health profile downloads

Watch our webinar, which provides a summary of the demographics and key health inequalities among the Bangladeshi community, translated into Sylheti.

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

Page last updated: 8 April 2024

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