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UK population will be '40% ethnic minorities by 2050'

Britain is set to be the Western world's most ethnically diverse nation after 2050. Credit: John Stillwell/PA Archive/Press Association Images

Britain will become one of the world's most ethnically diverse countries in less than 40 years, an academic study has found.


The Observatory's Professor David Coleman said if current trends continue, the so-called majority-ethnic group in the UK - white British - will become a minority before 2070.

Prof Coleman said this assumption does not factor in the impact of current or future government attempts to reduce net migration.

