Ethnic minorities to make up 20% of UK population by 2051
Posted by admin978 on July 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment
New projections published today by Leeds University show that ethnic minorities will make up a fifth of the UK’s population by 2051, rising from 8% in 2001.
The researchers also predict that ethnic minority populations will expand especially rapidly in previously white and affluent areas.
The proportion of the UK population classified as “white British” will shrink to 67.1%.
Presenting the report Prof. Philip Rees said that “overall we can look forward to being not only a more diverse nation, but one that is far more spatially integrated than at present.”
While keen to welcome diversity, the Leeds academic team’s contempt for English identity is evident from their inability to spell the Lancashire boroughs Darwen and Hyndburn.
