Half of all Londoners will be foreign-born by 2031

Daily Mail ^ | 1/26/15 | Robinson

[pabianice]

Foreigners living in London set to outnumber native Britons in 16 years

Capital's immigrant population will hit five million for the first time in 2031

They will overtake number of British-born residents, which's on the decline

In 1971 it was more than 6m but this will sink below 5m in coming decades

Total population, currently at 8.7m, will hit 10m in 2031 and 11m in 2041

The number of foreign-born people living in London will outnumber native Britons by 2031, it was revealed today.

The immigrant population of the capital will reach at least five million in 16 years - having more than doubled from one million in 1971 to three million in 2011, when the last census was carried out.

New research has found the rise of non-British born Londoners will take the city's total population to more than 10 million in 2031 and 11 million in 2041 - compared with the 8.6 million living there today.

But while the city's immigrant population will continue to rise sharply in the coming decades, the number of British-born people will continue to slowly decline.

In 1971 this figure was at more than six million but this is likely to sink below five million in the coming decades.

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[dfwgator]

Well a significant portion will be Polish, they don’t put up with crap from Muslims.

[Moltke]

Sounds like they are not even taking into account 2nd and 3rd+ generation migrants. Only those actually born outside the UK.

One of the Monty Python guys - John Cleese? - said about a visit to London some time back that he felt he was visiting a third world country. Oh the outrage that followed!

[SkyDancer]

[BobL]

“They CAN stop it from happening.”

For about 10 more years. Then they will simply be OUTNUMBERED, at least for fighting-age men. It all ends then.

[LadyDoc]

Yup. And four of them will be my relatives.

[MinuteGal]

My British second-cousin and his wife live in London. They are ardent Tories, traditional royalists....and hate Obama. I wonder what they're thinking about their country gradually slipping away from their hands.

I also wonder if they get the same helpless feeling we get when so many negative issues, disasters and scandals are beating down on our own USA heads every day.

I think I'll forward this link to them for their reaction. Sometimes links work when I forward to London, sometimes they don't. We'll see.

Leni