FadeTheButcher
07-01-2004, 02:05 AM
IndiaTimes, Times of India, Jun. 25
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/754045.cms
LONDON: Indians comprise the largest ethnic minority group among Britain’s population of some 60 million, said a government study here.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) emphasised Britain’s changing ethnic make-up with 4.6 million people describing themselves as “non-white”.
Just over 92 percent of British residents were white.
Among ethnic minorities, Indians were the largest group, followed by Pakistanis, people of mixed race, black Caribbeans, black Africans and Bangladeshis.
The number of non-white Britons has risen by 53 percent in the past decade.
The ONS said Britain was home to 59.2 million people in 2002, a rise of 9 million in 50 years and of 1.7 million in the past decade.
It estimates the population will reach 64.8 million in 2031 because of higher life expectancy and the “increasingly important factor” of immigration. The average age of the population has risen from 34.1 years in 1971 to 38.2 in 2002 and is projected to reach 43.3 in 2031.
The data, from the 2001 census and more recent surveys where available, shows a total of 8.3 percent of residents (4.9 million) were born abroad, almost double the proportion recorded in 1951.
Population of those born outside Britain increased more between 1991 and 2001 than in any of the preceding post-war decades. Immigration increased from 265,000 people in 1993 to 513,000 in 2002, while the numbers leaving the country rose from 266,000 to 359,000 during the same period.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/754045.cms
LONDON: Indians comprise the largest ethnic minority group among Britain’s population of some 60 million, said a government study here.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) emphasised Britain’s changing ethnic make-up with 4.6 million people describing themselves as “non-white”.
Just over 92 percent of British residents were white.
Among ethnic minorities, Indians were the largest group, followed by Pakistanis, people of mixed race, black Caribbeans, black Africans and Bangladeshis.
The number of non-white Britons has risen by 53 percent in the past decade.
The ONS said Britain was home to 59.2 million people in 2002, a rise of 9 million in 50 years and of 1.7 million in the past decade.
It estimates the population will reach 64.8 million in 2031 because of higher life expectancy and the “increasingly important factor” of immigration. The average age of the population has risen from 34.1 years in 1971 to 38.2 in 2002 and is projected to reach 43.3 in 2031.
The data, from the 2001 census and more recent surveys where available, shows a total of 8.3 percent of residents (4.9 million) were born abroad, almost double the proportion recorded in 1951.
Population of those born outside Britain increased more between 1991 and 2001 than in any of the preceding post-war decades. Immigration increased from 265,000 people in 1993 to 513,000 in 2002, while the numbers leaving the country rose from 266,000 to 359,000 during the same period.