The children of the Windrush generation are missing from early census data

Caribbean-born

Caribbean ethnicity but not Caribbean-born

1m

Ethnicity data not

available before 1991

750,000

500,000

250,000

0

1951

Census

1961

1971

1981

1991

2001

2011

2021

Caribbean-born

Caribbean ethnicity but not Caribbean-born

1m

Ethnicity data not

available before 1991

750,000

500,000

250,000

0

1951 Census

1961

1971

1981

1991

2001

2011

2021