[quote]Sloth wrote:
ninearms wrote:
If you really want to talk numbers you could always mention the roughly 350,000 baby boys that weren’t called Mohammed in 2007…
Ok, what are the demographics for non-Mohammeds? [/quote]
Underlining is mine:
Fertility of UK born and non-UK born women in England and Wales
Most of the increase in overall fertility in England and Wales can be attributed to rising fertility among UK born women, who make up the majority of the female population of childbearing age (85 per cent in 2007).
According to new estimates, the TFR for women born in the UK has risen substantially, from 1.68 in 2004 to 1.79 in 2007.
In contrast, there has been little change over the past three years in the estimated TFR for women born outside the UK. But foreign-born women living in England and Wales continue to have higher fertility than UK born women in all age groups.
In 2007, the estimated TFR for non-UK born women was 2.54 compared with an estimated 1.79 children for women born in the UK.
Foreign-born women are making up an increasing share of the childbearing population in England and Wales. Between 2004 and 2007, the proportion of women of childbearing age who were born outside the UK grew from 13 per cent to 15 per cent.
Because this group has higher fertility on average than those born in the UK, their increasing population share is helping to push the overall TFR upwards, even though their fertility is fairly stable.
Both UK born and non-UK born women are therefore contributing to the increase in overall fertility in England and Wales, but in different ways.
From this we see that while the fertility of British born women (which make up the clear majority) has been increasing, while the foreign born’s has stayed stable, albeit at a higher level.
About one in 20 (5 per cent) of the population belonged to a non-Christian religious denomination.
Religious Populations
Christianity is main religion in Britain
Muslims were the largest religious group after Christians. There were 1.6 million Muslims living in Britain in 2001.
This group comprised 3 per cent of the total population and over half (52 per cent) of the non-Christian religious population.
So, here you have your number - 3% (and that’s rounded up in 2001, so I guess it’ll be square 3% now).
Oh, and if you go through the analysis from 2006, you’ll find that Pakistani Muslims are only 1.2% of the population and only 43% of the Muslim population.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_compendia/foer2006/FoER_Main.pdf
Where does that leave us - it would take a looong time for the Muslim population to ‘take over’ Britain. Especially if you take into account that in the UK, the fertility rate amongst home born women is actually on the rise (and I’m leaving out the research I once posted here on the decline in the fertility rates amongst ethnic minorities second generations which make this take over scenario even more ridiculous).
Also, to alleviate fears about a political takeover - the British election system does not know proportional representation, and the ethnic minorities are very much concentrated and in a few urban areas - both factors which disadvantages them with regards to political influence.
So - much ado about not very many ‘Mohameds’.
Makkun