 In 2016, the Italian embassy in London estimated that 600,000 Italians were resident in the UK.According to Ethnologue, Italian is the first language of some 200,000 people in the UK, although the 2011 Census recorded only 92,241 people with Italian as their main language in England and Wales.For the period 2015 to 2016, 12,135 Italian students were studying in UK universities.