In a somewhat important development, a UK census, carried-out during 2011, shows BIG and remarkable changes in the religious & ethnic composition of the British populace. It illustrates that, in the decade to 2011, the overall number of the overseas-born individuals– staying inside England & Wales–increased by close to 63%, or two-thirds.
The survey further reveals that there were 2.9 million more persons, born out-of-the-country, inside Britain in 2011, as compared to 2001. The largest number of the migrants arrived from India even as Poland, after that the nations of Pakistan, Ireland & Germany, trailed India.
The survey reveals striking changes in the ethnic composition of the populace—specifically across the capital, London. Its latest figures show that in a decrease from the 58% noted during 2001, 45% of Londoners portrayed themselves as ‘white British’. And, 18.4% of the people of the capital portray themselves as Asian, with a significant section of them having south Asian roots in the countries of India, Pakistan & Bangladesh.
Further, 13.3% portrayed themselves as black even as 14.9% of the residents of London are white but not English, and 5% had mixed racial composition. Inside Newham (a London region), less than one-fifth or 20% of the populace happens to be ‘white British’. Throughout the rest of England and Wales, 7.5 million people, about 13% of the population, were born outside the UK. At the present, the total population of the UK is 56.1 million, an increase of 7% on 2001.
Meanwhile, an involved spokesman reportedly observed that there would be a great deal of dissimilar elucidations as to who the migrants were, and the factors behind their presence inside London even as the concerned statistical organization claims that 55% of that increase is brought about by immigration, and the rest by an increased rate of birth, vis-à-vis the rate of death.
Presently, ‘White British’ individuals form 80.5% of the populace of England & Wales even as 86% of the populace depict themselves as being white. A significant section of the 5.5% of the populace– which happens to be white but not English–consists of the recent migrants, who arrived in Britain, post the nations of the Eastern Europe became a part of the European Union (EU) way back in 2004.
Close to 500,000 persons roughly 1% of the populace, turned-up in Britain from Poland from 2004 to 2011. Overall, 1.1 million individuals–who happen to be white but not English—arrived during the decade to 2011.
