It’s an open secret that the populace of the UK comprises of a handsome percentage of the migrants.  Actually, to say that the world immigrants, by and large, make the country what it is at the present won’t be an exaggeration.

In a crucial development, certain latest data made available by the concerned UK organization reveal that a quarter of the babies born in the country–during the year gone by (2011)–were born to migrant mothers. According to the said body, the swell in the share of the overseas births to the non-British mothers staying in Great Britain establishes how the demographic make-up of the nation is undergoing a major transformation. It further says that getting a grasp of the prototypes of the child-bearing, amongst the populace of the migrants, is vital for certain services involving planning and development; for instance, schools & motherhood provision.

The numbers reveal that in London, the capital–wherein a sizable section of the overseas people stays–57% of kids had migrant mothers. The research continues that the overall number of births to Britain-born mothers continued to be almost stagnant between the period of 2007 and 2011. During 2007, 603,000 births to Britain-born mothers took place, vis-à-vis 612,000 during 2011.

Still, the number of the kids born to the non-Britain born mothers increased by 16% to become 196,000 from 169,000. A section of this is duly elucidated by the numbers of Britain-born and the non-Britain born women staying in Great Britain. Significantly, between the period of 2007 and 2011, an increase of 24% was registered in the overall number of the age of the women of the child-bearing capacity staying in the country, while the number of such Britain-born women in reality had headed north by 5%.

According to the research, done by the involved body, the rates of fertility were comparatively higher amongst the non-UK born, vis-à-vis the UK-born people. The overall rate of fertility calculated the yearly number of live births every 1,000 women of the child-bearing age–time and again taken to be between 15 & 49 years. The said figure was 60 for the UK-born women even as it stood close to 150 for the women with Pakistani roots, and about 140 with Nigerian roots. As far as the Bangladesh-born women goes, the number was close to 110. For the women with Indian roots, it was around 95, while for the Polish-born women it was nearly 90.

The study concludes that, on an average, the migrant mothers had 2.28 kids each even as the UK-born mothers had not more than 1.89 kids.