Muslim community health profile
Overview
The Muslim 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 Muslim community.
Although the focus of this report was health inequalities among the Muslim community in Birmingham, the limited available information on health inequalities has resulted in data being used from the UK and internationally where available.
Within this community health profile, the Muslim population was defined by the census 2021 category on religion ‘Muslim’.
Population size
Population size estimates have been taken from the 2021 census for England and Wales, using the 10 category dataset for religion.
- England and Wales: 3,868,133 (6.5% of the total population).
- Birmingham: 341,811 (30% of the total population).
Health and wellbeing
You can learn more about the health and wellbeing needs, and the identified health inequalities of the Muslim population by reading the Muslim 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.
Available resources
To support in your understanding of health inequalities among the Muslim community, we have produced several resources including:
- Muslim community health profile report
- Muslim health inequalities summary presentation
- Muslim health inequalities 2021 census update
View all Muslim community health profile downloads.
Webinar
Watch our webinar which provides a summary of the demographics and key health inequalities among the Muslim 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 resources into Urdu:
Page last updated: 9 April 2024
