Sky-high immigration adds staggering 100,000 people a year to the population of Greater London as high birth rates pushes it towards ‘megacity status’
The ONS said the capital's population will rise to 10 million by 2025 with migrant Mums accounting for over half of all births
SKY-HIGH immigration is adding a staggering 100,000 people a year to the population of Greater London as high birth rates pushes it towards 'megacity status'.
Bombshell figures revealed yesterday said the migrant explosion was also adding to the huge pressure on public services in 10 of Britain’s biggest city regions.
Staggering stats from the Office for National Statistics showed that net migration alone had pushed up the population of the West Midlands by 54,000 in the past four years.
But immigration also swelled the population of Sheffield by 20,000 and Bristol by 16,000 between 2011 and 2015.
The ONS added that the number of people living in our biggest cities was only going to increase over the next decade.
In a startling forecast, the ONS said the population of Greater London will rise by another 13 per cent by 2025 to nearly 10 million, hitting 'megacity' status, with migrant Mums accounting for over half of all births.
According to estimates, an average of nearly 100,000 people from overseas moved to the capital every year between 2011 and 2015, helping increase the population by nearly 5 per cent.
But alongside that the number of children and teenagers in the capital is dropping by more than 30,000 a year as parents fail to cope with London's sky-high housing costs.
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The experts examined population data relating to Britain's most populous city areas, which all saw an increase in population - the greatest being in London.
The total across the 11 regions rising by 3.4 per cent, or 885,000 in four years, to reach almost 27.2 million in 2015.
And the predictions say Bristol’s population will rise by 9 per cent to 1.2 million over the next decade.
Alp Mehmet, vice chair of Migration Watch, said: “These figures are no surprise to us.
“This is what mass immigration leads to and why it must be controlled.
“Let’s not also forget that while the population of our capital city is growing, the number of British citizens living here is actually going down.
“Many people will think that a bizarre turn of events.”
At the height of the EU Referendum campaign, the think tank claimed that 85 per cent of the huge change in Britain’s population since 2000 was down to net migration plus births to foreign born parents.
It said that without taking back border controls, the number of people living in the UK could increase by as much as 500,000 a year – equivalent to a new city the size of Liverpool every year.