White British will become a minority group in the by the year 2063, a new report has claimed. The research report by Professor Matt Goodwin of the University of Buckingham also claims that 20% of the will be Muslim by 2100.

The analysis, which claims to have used migration, birth and death rates up to the end of the 21st century to chart how demographics in the UK could change over the course of the century, believes that white British people will make up just 57% of the population by 2050, before becoming a minority in 2063. Currently, the of the population, and the study's author Prof Goodwin believes that it raises "profound questions about the capacity of the UK state to both absorb and manage this scale of demographic change". He said: "What these projections show is that the UK is currently on course to experience enormous and historically unprecedented changes in the composition of its population."

The report also predicts a sharp increase in the proportion of the UK population comprising foreign-born and second-generation immigrants will rise to 33.5% of the overall UK population in 2050, 47.5% by 2075 and 60.6% by 2100.

The country's Muslim population, which currently stands at 7%, is expected to increase to 1 in 10 in the next 25 years, rising to 1 in 5 by the end of the century.

Prof Goodwin added: "While the White British are set to become a minority in the country only 38 years from now, in the year 2063, by the end of the current century, these islands will both look and feel profoundly different.

"By the year 2100, the White British will only comprise one-third of the population, people who were born in the UK and can trace their roots back over several generations will represent only around four in 10 people, compared to eight in 10 today, and one in five people will be Muslim, all of which raises profound questions about the capacity of the UK state to both absorb and manage this scale of demographic change."

The report comes at a time when the issue of immigration, both legal and illegal, remains at the top of the political agenda.

Last month, Prime Minister described the country's approach to immigration in recent years as a "squalid chapter in our nation's politics" as he laid out the government's plan to curb the numbers.

In 2023, immigration rose to record numbers, reaching a high of 906,000.

At the weekend, the Prime Minister was accused of losing control of the country's borders as more than 1,000 migrants made their way across the Channel in a single day.