UK, JUNE 23, 2004
NRI news Services
White population is 92 percent of the total population
of Britain, according to the office for National Statistics (ONS)
NRIs are the largest minority group among UK's population
of some 60 million population of UK. The Office for National Statistics
emphasised Britain's changing ethnic make-up with 4.6 million people
describing themselves as "non-white".
Indians were the largest group, followed by Pakistanis,
people of mixed race, black Caribbeans, black Africans and Bangladeshis
among ethnic minorities. In the past decade, non-white Britons has risen
by 53 percent.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said Britain
was home to 59.2 million people in 2002, a rise of 9 million in 50 years
and of 1.7 million in the past decade.
Population of those born outside Britain increased more
between 1991 and 2001 than in any of the preceding post-war decades.
Immigration increased from 265,000 people in 1993 to 513,000 in 2002,
while the numbers leaving the country rose from 266,000 to 359,000 during
the same period.