“Mosquitoes”, anyone?
The soaring birth rate among immigrant mothers will soon become the main driver of Britain’s rapid population growth, Government experts predicted today.
Immigration has been the biggest factor in increasing the population in recent years, and with millions of new arrivals starting families the birth rate is soaring.
The Office for National Statistics said yesterday that it could be the main source of overall population growth as early as next year, overtaking immigration itself.
Almost a quarter of all babies in Britain are now born to immigrant mothers. In London the figure is 54 per cent, rising to 75 per cent in some boroughs.
Foreign-born mothers have an average of 2.54 children, compared with 1.79 for women born in the UK.
I would rework that headline.
Immigration is a huge problem in Britain, it’s true, but data shows that immigrant children have a lower birth rate in the first generation, and by the third generation have settled their birth rate to the domestic rate.
That doesn’t mean it’s not a problem. But one that can be solved.
Comment by Raphael Alexander — August 21, 2008 @ 10:46 pm
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Pingback by Steynian 229 « Free Mark Steyn! — August 24, 2008 @ 9:01 am
Oh Dear, didn’t Mark Steyn predict this would happen.
Oh Dear, there goes Islamophobia out the window.
Tisk tisk, Raphael with the far leftards on Radical Islam’s side Britian can’t win this war. Oh well once you kill the host culture, as the left are trying to do in Canada, something has to take it’s place ala Islam and the fascist socialist ideology.
Comment by Rose — August 24, 2008 @ 2:00 pm
Canada and Britain are two different animals, Rose. If Canada had the same population of Islamics as Britain, Steyn’s predictions would be more valid. It’s a little silly to say the Islamists can take over Canada with less than 3% of our population. You may as well start saying the Joooos are going to do it.
Comment by Raphael Alexander — August 24, 2008 @ 3:41 pm