Dr Paul Morland said research suggested that between 50 and 60 per cent of the overall British population would define themselves as white British by 2060.
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country. paul morland is a demographer and author of tomorrow s people. he says the new statistics are not a surprise. the family sizes in china fell earlierthan in india, and they ve gone lower than in india. and so, india is perhaps 20 30 years behind china in this respect. and so, china s getting to a declining population quicker and sooner than i think people thought. and india is indeed about to overtake it. we can t know exactly the day or the moment, butjust about now. so what does this mean? i mean, what does it mean for the global population going forward? does it make any difference who the biggest number belongs to, or is itjust the trend we need to be keeping an eye on? i think who is actually the largest is not all that significant, although it s quite important when you think that china s been the most populous state for all of human history, pretty much, so this does feel like a big moment. the key thing is that china s population, as your correspondent was saying, is ac
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