Ethnicity Statistics

• Runnymede Report


  Ethnic minorities are 3x more likely than white people to experience poverty in retirement
• The National Equality Panel


  There are considerable differences in median wealth between ethnic households e.g. white British had £221,000 while Bangladeshi had £15,000
• Joseph Rowntree Foundation


  Bangladeshi experience significant income inequality, they have the highest poverty rates and only 25% reach incomes among the top half of overall incomes.
• Employment

  • ONS finds that Arab women are least employed social group with 64% unemployment rate
• Criminal Justice System

  • Black people 7x more likely to stopped and searched
  • Asian people 3x more likely to stopped and searched
• Poverty

  • Runnymede Report: ethnic minorities 3x more likely to be in poverty upon retirement
  • 2011 Consensus: 33% of Bangladeshis and Pakistani live in deprived areas
• Workplace

  • Davidson: 'concrete ceiling'
  • Sedghi: 39% of Bangladeshi women and 35% of Bangladeshi work part time