Bisexual community health profile

Overview

The bisexual 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 the bisexual community.

Although the focus of this report was health inequalities among the bisexual 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

‘Bisexual’ or ‘bi’ are umbrella terms used to describe a romantic and/or sexual orientation towards more than one gender.

Bisexuality is a term which may be used by people from a variety of gender identities.

Population size

Population size estimates have been taken from the 2021 census for England and Wales.

  • England and Wales: 624,000 people identified as bisexual (1.3% of the total population)
  • Birmingham: 11,258 people identified as bisexual (1.3% of the total population)

Health and wellbeing

To find out more about the health and wellbeing needs, and the identified health inequalities of the bisexual population, download the Bisexual Community Health Profile report.

Available resources

To help you understand more about health inequalities among the bisexual community, we have produced several resources, including:

View all bisexual community health profile downloads

Webinar

Watch our webinar which provides a summary of the demographics and key health inequalities among the bisexual community:

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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