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According
to the 1991 census there were 148,771 Chinese in England and Wales.
With
a total of 164,667 in Britain as a whole - the Chinese community
made up 0.3 percent of the population.
The
highest population lived in central London - 27,549 or almost 20
percent of the total Chinese population in England - and outer London
(29,227 or 20.7 percent).
However
in comparison with all ethnic groups, the Chinese community is widely
dispersed both within London and across Britain.
 According to the 1991 census there were
148,771 Chinese in England and Wales.  |
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At
the time of the census, the largest group among the Chinese in this
country was aged between 20 and 44.
Numbers
in the older age groups were well below that for the white population,
particularly for those of pensionable age.
Almost
one in three of the Chinese population (29.2 percent) were born
in the UK. However nearly all of the older people were born outside
the UK - with half coming from Hong Kong and the People's Republic
of China the most common other place of origin (11.6 percent).
Most
of the remainder came from other Commonwealth countries in south-east
Asia, and Vietnam (6.2 percent).
While
there is a high degree of participation in full time education among
the younger Chinese, only 25 percent of the first generation Chinese
had education beyond primary school level.
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