The majority of British Pakistanis are Muslim; around 90 percent of those living in England and Wales at the time of the 2011 UK Census said their religion was Islam. The majority are Sunni Muslims, but there is also quite a big minority of Shia Muslims. The UK also has one of the largest overseas Christian Pakistani communities; the 2011 census recorded around 17,000 Christian Pakistanis living in England and Wales, 1.52 percent of the Pakistani people of England and Wales.