Fact-check: “The British population is 6.5% muslim”
Verdict: Partly True (85% confidence)
The 6.5% figure is accurate for England and Wales specifically, based on the 2021 ONS Census, which counted 3.87 million Muslims out of 59.60 million people. But 'British population' most naturally refers to the entire United Kingdom, and the UK-wide figure — including Scotland (2.2%) and Northern Ireland (~0.6%) — comes to approximately 6.0%, confirmed by the Muslim Council of Britain's 2025 census summary. So the claim is off by half a percentage point when applied to the full UK.
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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