White British people will become a minority in the UK population in less than 40 years, a report has predicted.
The population of white British people will fall from 73 per cent to 57 per cent by 2050, before becoming a minority by 2063, the research suggests.
Professor Matt Goodwin of Buckingham University analysed migration, birth and death rates, and calculated that by the end of the century, the white British share of the population – those who do not have an immigrant parent – could have dropped to a third.
His report predicts a sharp rise in the proportion of the UK population made up of foreign-born and second-generation immigrants, increasing from below 20 per cent to 33.5 per cent within the next 25 years.
It also forecasts a near three-times increase in the number of Muslims living in the UK, suggesting that almost one in five people living in Britain will be followers of Islam by the end of the century.
