UK News 04-09-2000 White People Will Be Ethnic Minority By Next Century who: White people what: Could be an ethnic minority in Britain by the end of the century when: Between 2060 and 2140 snippet: "Britain`s white population will be an ethnic minority by the end of the century," says The Sun today. And immigration "could be responsible for half the growth of the British population over the next 20 years," says The Mirror. If current trends of fertility rates and levels of immigration continue, there will be more non-whites than whites, according to a new, as-yet-unpublished demographic report, and white people in London will be outnumbered by other groups within a decade. "The demographer... was reluctant to be named until he has completed his statistical evidence and published the findings," says Dominic Kennedy in The Times. "He confirmed that, if present trends in birthrates and immigration continued, Britain could follow America as a white-minority state". "In 1991, there were three million non-whites in the UK six per cent of the population," continues The Sun`s report. "That number has grown by up to four per cent a year, with immigration adding another 185,000 a year". [... more]

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