Editing North West England (section)

===Place of birth===

The table below is not how many people belong to each ethnic group (e.g. a BBC News article in 2008 claimed there are over 25,000 ethnic [[Italians in the United Kingdom|Italians]] in Manchester alone whilst only 6,000 Italian-born people live in the North West).<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/3223776.stm |title=Italians revolt over church closure |last=Green |first=. David |date=29 November 2003 |publisher=BBC News |access-date=27 January 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081122111600/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/3223776.stm |archive-date=22 November 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref> The proportion of people residing in North West England born outside the UK was 11.7% in 2021, compared with 8.2% in 2011 and 5.1% in 2001. Below are the fifteen largest overseas-born groups in the region according to the 2021 census, alongside the two previous censuses:

[[File:Jodrell Bank (1).jpg|thumb|right|The [[Jodrell Bank Observatory|Jodrell Bank]] [[Lovell Telescope|Lovell]] 76-m [[radio telescope]] in [[Lower Withington]], built in August 1957, is the world's third largest steerable telescope, and was the largest until 1971. It was designed by Sheffield's Sir [[Charles Husband]] and built of steel from [[Scunthorpe]] ]]
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!  style="text-align:center; background:#9dbec3;"|Place of birth
!  style="text-align:center; background:#9dbec3;"|2021<ref name="E&W_CoB22">{{cite web |title=TS012: Country of birth (detailed) |url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/datasets/TS012/editions/2021/versions/2/filter-outputs/ba18881b-a88f-432f-89be-af1fee321107#get-data |publisher=Office for National Statistics |access-date=28 March 2023}}</ref>
!  style="text-align:center; background:#9dbec3;"|2011<ref>{{cite web |title=QS203EW: Country of birth (detailed) |url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/qs203ew |website=nomisweb.co.uk |publisher=Nomis |access-date=30 January 2013}}</ref>
!  style="text-align:center; background:#9dbec3;"|2001<ref>{{cite web |title=UV008: Country of birth |url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2001/uv008 |website=nomisweb.co.uk |publisher=Nomis |access-date=30 January 2013}}</ref>
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|border = "1"|{{flag|Pakistan}}
|align="right"|125,110
|align="right"|79,289
|align="right"|46,529
|-
|border = "1"|{{flagicon|Poland}} [[Poles in the United Kingdom|Poland]]
|align="right"|76,688
|align="right"|51,999
|align="right"|4,864
|-
|border = "1"|{{flag|India}}
|align="right"|60,180
|align="right"|48,676
|align="right"|34,600
|-
|border = "1"|{{flagicon|Ireland}} [[Irish people in Great Britain|Ireland]]
|align="right"|38,379
|align="right"|48,456
|align="right"|56,887
|-
|border = "1"|{{flagicon|Romania}} [[Romanians in the United Kingdom|Romania]]
|align="right"|33,918
|align="right"|3,052
|align="right"|484
|-
|border = "1"|{{flagicon|Nigeria}} [[Nigerians in the United Kingdom|Nigeria]]
|align="right"|29,092
|align="right"|13,903
|align="right"|3,011
|-
|border = "1"|{{flag|Bangladesh}}
|align="right"|23,876
|align="right"|19,485
|align="right"|13,746
|-
|border = "1"|{{flagicon|Italy}} [[Italians in the United Kingdom|Italy]]
|align="right"|23,305
|align="right"|7,434
|align="right"|6,325
|-
|border = "1"|{{flag|China}}
|align="right"|22,792
|align="right"|20,561
|align="right"|6,439
|-
|border = "1"|{{flagicon|Germany}} [[Germans in the United Kingdom|Germany]]
|align="right"|22,169
|align="right"|22,094
|align="right"|19,931
|-
|border = "1"|{{flagicon|Spain}} [[Spaniards in the United Kingdom|Spain]]
|align="right"|17,237
|align="right"|5,673
|align="right"|3,473
|-
|border = "1"|{{flagicon|Iran}} [[Iranians in the United Kingdom|Iran]]
|align="right"|14,724
|align="right"|8,436
|align="right"|3,473
|-
|border = "1"|{{flagicon|South Africa}} [[South Africans in the United Kingdom|South Africa]]
|align="right"|12,981
|align="right"|10,500
|align="right"|7,740
|-
|border = "1"|{{flagicon|Hong Kong}} [[Hong Kongers in the United Kingdom|Hong Kong]]
|align="right"|12,770
|align="right"|9,692
|align="right"|9,052
|-
|border = "1"|{{flagicon|United States}} [[Americans in the United Kingdom|United States]]
|align="right"|10,995
|align="right"|9,028
|align="right"|7,037
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!border = "1"|Overall – all overseas-born
!align="right"|865,445
!align="right"|577,232
!align="right"|341,593
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