Immigration Boosts Britain’s Population

According to the Telegraph, immigration is a factor that fuels Great Britain’s population:

The European Union’s statistics office has projected a British population on the rise, growing from the current level of 61 million people to 77 million over the next 50 years.

As incoming migrants and rising birth rates multiply the number of Britons, Germany, currently Europe’s most populous nation, is projected to decline from 82 million to 71 million people by 2060.

France will also overtake Germany to become the EU second-most populous country after Britain with 72 million residents, according to the forecast by Eurostat.

Figures from the Office for National Statistics, released last week, found that inward migration to Britain reached its highest level since the current method of counting was introduced, with 605,000 long-term immigrants arriving in the year to mid-2007.

The EU projections show that the wave of migration to Britain, boosting both the workforce and fertility rates, is out of step with many other European countries where deaths are expected to overtake births after 2015. Click here for the rest of the story.
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