Editing Sikhs (section)

=== Census data and official statistics ===
As a religious minority, Sikhs have fought long and hard to get official status and to be counted in many countries across the world. Through the efforts of Sikh organisations and communities in their respective countries, there is now readily available population data on Sikhs as part of the census or official statistics in the following territories:

{| class="wikitable"
|+Census data / official statistics:
!Territory
! colspan="2" |Latest data
|-
|{{Flag|India}} ([[Punjab, India|Punjab]])
|16,004,754
| rowspan="2" |2011<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/C-01.html|title=Census of India Website : Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India|website=[[censusindia.gov.in]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220401023703/https://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/C-01.html|archive-date=1 April 2022}}</ref>
|-
|{{Flag|India}} (Rest of India)
|4,828,362
|-
|{{Flag|Canada}}
|771,790
|2021<ref name="canadareligion20213">{{Cite web |last=Government of Canada |first=Statistics Canada |date=2022-10-26 |title=Religion by visible minority and generation status: Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations with parts |url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=9810034201 |access-date=2022-10-26 |website=www12.statcan.gc.ca}}</ref>
|-
|{{Flag|England}}
|520,092
|2021<ref name="SikhEngland20212">{{Cite web |title=Religion, England and Wales – Office for National Statistics |url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/culturalidentity/religion/bulletins/religionenglandandwales/census2021 |access-date=2022-11-29 |website=www.ons.gov.uk}}</ref>
|-
|{{Flag|Australia}}
|210,400
|2021<ref name=":12">{{cite web |title=Australian Bureau of Statistics : 2021 Census of Population and Housing : General Community Profile |url=https://www.abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/community-profiles/2021/AUS/download/GCP_AUS.xlsx |access-date=2 July 2022 |website=Abs.gov.au |format=XLSX}}</ref>
|-
|{{Flag|New Zealand}}
|53,406
|2023<ref name="New Zealand Sikh population" />
|-
|{{Flag|Singapore}}
|12,051
|2020<ref name=":42">{{Cite web |title="Religion by Ethnic in Singapore 2020" |url=https://www.singstat.gov.sg/publications/reference/cop2020/cop2020-sr1/census20_stat_release1 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210617123031/https://www.singstat.gov.sg/publications/reference/cop2020/cop2020-sr1/census20_stat_release1 |archive-date=2021-06-17 |access-date=2021-06-18}}</ref>
|-
|{{Flag|Thailand}}
|11,124
|2010<ref>"Population by religion, region and area, 2010" (PDF). NSO. Retrieved 10 January 2018.</ref>
|-
|{{Flag|Norway}}
|4,318
|2021<ref>{{Cite web |title=06326: Members of congregations in religious and philosophical communities outside the Church of Norway, by religion/philosophy 2006–2023. Statbank Norway |url=https://www.ssb.no/en/system/ |access-date=2023-07-19 |website=SSB |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|{{Flag|Wales}}
|4,048
|2021<ref name="SikhEngland20212" />
|-
|{{Flag|Fiji}}
|2,577
|2007<ref name=":22">{{cite web |title=Religion – Fiji Bureau of Statistics |url=http://www.statsfiji.gov.fj/statistics/social-statistics/religion |website=www.statsfiji.gov.fj |access-date=20 July 2023 |archive-date=17 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180417193329/http://www.statsfiji.gov.fj/statistics/social-statistics/religion |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
|{{Flag|Ireland}}
|2,183
|2022<ref name=":32">{{cite web |title=Irish census |url=https://data.cso.ie/table/FY030 |access-date=31 May 2023 |website=Irish census}}</ref>
|-
|{{Flag|Nepal}}
|1,496
|2021<ref name=":62">{{Cite web|url=https://censusnepal.cbs.gov.np/results/files/caste/Religion_NPHC_2021.xlsx|title=Table − 1: Population by Religion and sex, NPHC 2021|website=censusnepal.cbs.gov.np}}</ref>
|-
|{{Flag|Northern Ireland}}
|389
|2021<ref>"MS-B21: Religion – full detail". ''Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency''.</ref>
|-
|{{Flag|Scotland}}
|10,988
|2022
|-
|{{Flag|Pakistan}}
|Pending
|2023
|}
[[File:2011-2021 Change in Sikh %.png|thumb|2011–2021 change in Sikh %]]
Note: Official statistics do not count unregistered arrivals or those who have not completed the census or surveys. However, they do provide for a much more accurate depiction of Sikh communities as opposed to estimates from various Sikh organisations whose estimates can vary vastly with no statistically valuable source. Thus, official statistics and census data is highly important and Sikh communities continue to push for census inclusion in many countries where they are still not counted.