| Total population | |
|---|---|
| Polish nationals - 900,000 Romanian nationals - 450,000 Lithuanian Nationals - 189,000 Bulgarian nationals - 121,000 Hungarian nationals - 109,000 Albanian nationals - 100,200 Latvian nationals - 100,000 Slovak nationals - 80,000 Czech nationals - 70,000 Russian nationals - 36,000 Ukrainian nationals - 25,000 Moldovan nationals - 18,000 Belarusian - 4,734 (UN estimate 2015) (ONS estimates 2019, except as noted) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| London, Manchester, Birmingham, Southampton, Boston | |
| Languages | |
| British English Belarusian · Romanian · Russian · Ukrainian Other Eastern European Languages | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity, Non-religious, others | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Belarusians, Ukrainians, Moldovans, Russians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians, Slovenes, Croats, Bosniaks, Serbs, Kosovars, Montenegrins, Macedonians, Romanians, Bulgarians, Albanians |
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| United Kingdom |
| Eastern European |
| Northern European |
| Southern European |
| Western European |
| Central Asian |
| East Asian |
| South Asian |
| Southeast Asian |
| West Asian |
| African and Afro-Caribbean |
| Northern American |
| South American |
| Oceanian |
Immigrants from Eastern Europe and their descendants have been present in the United Kingdom, in small numbers, for several centuries, with subsequent large migrations in the 21st century. At times, British media also included people with Central European ancestry in this category. This is similar to the definition of Eastern European in the United States, Canada, and Australia: Coming from former Eastern Bloc countries.[citation needed]
There are roughly 2.2 million Eastern European nationals living in the UK, with the largest groups being Polish, Romanian, and Lithuanian. This includes 1,429,000 nationals from EU8 countries, 570,000 nationals from EU2 countries, 29,000 from Cyprus, Malta, and Croatia outside of the EU's original fourteen (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden), and 216,000 from non-EU Europe.