In the midst of an feature about 'the state of the nation', based on a National Statisticians article on society, Metro makes the following claim:
Percentage of UK population classified as white
2007: 90%
(England 65%)
Um, given that England makes up about 50 million of the UK's 60 million-ish population, this just doesn't add up.
If 90% of the UK's 60 million population is white, that's 54 million of them who are white and 6 million not. Even if every one of those non-white folk lives in England (which isn't the case), that still gives England a white population of 44 million, or just over 80%.
So either the figure of 90% is wrong, or the figure of 65% is wrong. Or possibly both. When I spot something like this in a feature, it immediately makes me mistrust the entire thing and I usually just stop reading.
Just a thought: any chance that figure of 65% was supposed to refer to London?
Tearing things out of papersis not my forte...
4 comments:
Could it be saying that England has 65% of the British population? Or it could be saying that 65% of the white population lives in England?
Just guessing...
65% sounds quite likely as a "white" percentage for London. For Britain as a whole, or England, it's clearly too low, whatever the Daily Mail (or the Metro, which isn't significantly different) would like us to think.
And the perentage of non-white newsreaders on TV is currently 95%. That's positive discrimination for you.
In my geography textbook is says that 90% People in the UK are white, So I'm thinking that one is right.
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