In November 2019, ahead of England's appearance in the Rugby World Cup final, we reported on the background of the squad.
- XLSX: England rugby squad demographics - data compiled manually from the RFU and reports
- John Williams, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Leicester
- Neil Harris, head of rugby, St George's School, Harpenden
- Map: Birthplaces of squad's English-born players
- Stacked bar chart: numbers of players by area and position (script for drawing the map can be found here)
An unused Sankey diagram of squad positions and birthplaces was also created - shown below:
