England: Mothers Born Abroad Now Account for 28.2 Per Cent of Births
by Jack Montgomery, Breitbart:
New Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show that mothers born outside the UK accounted for 28.2 per cent of live births in England and Wales in 2016.
Of the 696,271 live births in England and Wales recorded for the year, almost 200,000 were to mothers who were themselves born outside the United Kingdom – the highest proportion on record.
Unlike some other European statistical authorities, the ONS does not reveal how many births can be attributed to UK-born mothers who come from a migration background, or to UK-born mothers bearing children for foreign-born fathers, in its figures.
Birth rates in migrant communities tend to be above the national average. Considered alongside annual gross immigration approaching and sometimes exceeding 600,000, this suggests that the United Kingdom will undergo a major demographic shift as older generations begin to pass away and be replaced with migrant and migrant-descended families.
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