The three main ethnicities within the British Iraqi community are Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen, according to a publication by the International Organization for Migration.

[7] Refugees including liberal and radical intellectuals dissatisfied with the monarchist regime moved to the UK at this time.

[7] According to an International Organization for Migration mapping exercise, many settled Iraqi migrants in the UK moved for educational purposes or to seek a better life in the 1950s and 1960s.

[18] There are also sizeable numbers of Assyrians,[19] Armenians, Mandaeans[6] and other ethnic groups, such as Iraqi Jews, Yezidi, Shabakis and Kawliya.

[20] Although the majority of Iraqis are Muslim (Shia and Sunni), there are also minority religions including Christians, Jews,[4] and followers of Mandaeism,[6] Yazidism, Shabakism and Yarsan.