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1 : Objective of the project
The purpose of the project summarised in this report is to improve the ability of the Welsh Assembly to identify the location of the overseas Welsh community within the English speaking world.
In particular the project seeks to identify the level of concentration of people of Welsh origins in England, Scotland, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. It also seeks to enable the Welsh Assembly to identify where within these countries people of Welsh origin are most likely to be found.
The project also supplies the Assembly with a list of personal and family names most strongly associated with the Welsh community, together with a measure of the strength of that association. This list will enable the Assembly to select from population registers those individuals whose names are most likely to be of Welsh origin.
Estimated size of Welsh diaspora
......................Population 2006...% Welsh ancestry...Total Welsh ancestry
Wales..................2.93 million.............34.9..................1.013 million
Rest of UK...........57.35 million..............5.3..................3.038 mill
USA..................296.50 million..............3.8.................11.267 mill
Australia.............20.45 million...............4.1..................0.839 mill
New Zealand.........2.93 million...............4.7..................0.136 mill
.................................................. ..........................16.293 mill
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