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Northern Ireland: non-English speaking population in 2011

Proportion of non-native English speakers in Northern Ireland who could not speak English at all in 2011, by main language

The data displays the percentage of non-native English speakers residing in Northern Ireland in 2011 who could not speak English at all, by their main language. 7.7% of Chinese native speakers declared that they could not speak English, which was the highest proportion of any category.

Chinese	7.7
Polish	6.1
Lithuanian	5.9
Slovak	5.4
Portuguese	5.2
Other	4.8
Russian	3.5
Latvian	3.5
Hungarian	3.5
Malaylam	0.9
Irish (Gaelic)	0.8
Tagalog/Filipino	0.1

Northern Ireland: non-English speaking population in 2011

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