Foreign Born Population
As of the 2011 Census, 36.7% of London's population was foreign born. With 2,998,264 residents born abroad, London has the highest foreign-born population of any city in the world.
| Population born in the UK | Population Foreign-Born | |
|---|---|---|
| Inner London | 1,867,723 | 1,364,178 |
| Outer London | 3,307,954 | 1,634,086 |
| London | 5,175,677 | 2,998,264 |
| % born in the UK | % Foreign-Born | |
|---|---|---|
| Inner London | 57.8 | 42.2 |
| Outer London | 66.9 | 33.1 |
| London | 63.3 | 36.7 |
Read more about this topic: Ethnic Groups In London
Famous quotes containing the words foreign, born and/or population:
“I journeyed to London, to the timekept City,
Where the River flows, with foreign flotations.
There I was told: we have too many churches,
And too few chop-houses.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“In most nineteenth-century cities, both large and small, more than 50 percent—and often up to 75 percent—of the residents in any given year were no longer there ten years later. People born in the twentieth century are much more likely to live near their birthplace than were people born in the nineteenth century.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)
“The population question is the real riddle of the sphinx, to which no political Oedipus has as yet found the answer. In view of the ravages of the terrible monster over-multiplication, all other riddle sink into insignificance.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)