Country of Birth
The 2011 Census revealed that 36.7% of London's population are foreign born. The table to the right shows the most common countries of birth of London residents. Note that a portion of the German-born population are likely to be British nationals born to parents serving in the British Armed Forces in Germany.
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Famous quotes containing the words country and/or birth:
“No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.”
—Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)
“While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 2:6,7.