UKs Birmingham set to become `minority white city by 2027

Manchester University demographers have predicted that Britains second biggest city, Birmingham, is likely to become a minority white city in 2027The demographers claimed that the number of white people living presently in Birmingham would be overtaken by other ethnic origins by 2027.

London, Aug.31 : Manchester University demographers have predicted that Britain's second biggest city, Birmingham, is likely to become a minority white city in 2027The demographers claimed that the number of white people living presently in Birmingham would be overtaken by other ethnic origins by 2027.

Experts have already forecast that Leicester could become the first city in which white people are a minority in four years' time.

Dr. Ludi Simpson, a social statistician at Manchester University, was quoted by The Telegraph as saying that the Pakistani population in Birmingham was likely to double by 2026, but with two-thirds of this increase due to the relatively younger age profile of Pakistanis, rather than increased immigration.

Nissa Finney, also from Manchester University, told the Royal Geographical Society's annual conference that 35 towns and cities in Britain had at least one ward which was "minority white".

Trevor Phillips, the chairman of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights, said that "tough decisions" will have to be made as some more areas become "plural cities" where no one race holds a majority.

ANI