One in four Londoners was born overseas, migration study finds
By Alexandra Frean, Social Affairs Correspondent

LONDON’S immigrant population has soared in recent years with more than one in four of today’s inhabitants of the capital having been born abroad, research has shown.
In 1991, only one in 20 Londoners gave their birthplace as outside the United Kingdom.

Had no foreign-born people moved to the capital in the decade to 2001, its population would have fallen, according to the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). In Wembley, 52 per cent of residents were born abroad.

More than half of Britain’s recent population growth can be attributed to immigration, the survey found.

Migrants accounted for 1.14 million of the 2.2 million increase in population in Britain between 1991 and 2001. They make up 7.5 per cent of the population, compared with 5.7 per cent in 1991, according to an analysis of census data.

On average, immigrant groups earn more than people born in Britain. However, the study found earnings disparities between groups. Immigrants with the greatest proportion of their population reporting the highest earnings are from the US (40.6 per cent), Sweden (31.8 per cent) and Australia (27 per cent). Those reporting earnings below half-median level were from Bangladesh (63.3 per cent), former Czechoslovakia (47.9 per cent) and China (38.2 per cent).

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