Baltic people in the United Kingdom are those born or raised in the UK, or residents, who are of ethnically Baltic, meaning Latvian or Lithuanian, origin.
[1] Significant numbers of Baltic people moved to the UK in 1947 under a government backed scheme called Westward Ho.
The first group of displaced persons (DPs) from the British zone of occupation of Germany arrived in the UK in 1947, called the Balt Cygnets.
[2] The 2011 UK Census recorded 95,730 Lithuanian-born residents in England, 1,353 in Wales,[3] 4,287 in Scotland,[4] and 7,341 in Northern Ireland.
[5] The census recorded 53,977 Latvian-born residents in England, 692 in Wales,[3] 4,475 in Scotland,[4] and 2,297 in Northern Ireland.