Third of children born in England has foreign-born parent Professor David Coleman said: "On current trends European populations will become more ethnically diverse, with the possibility that today's majority ethnic groups will no longer comprise a numerical majority." By 2040, he said 37 per cent who live in the UK won't class themselves as white or British, the Sun reported. Continuing along that trajectory would put the UK on course to overtake the world's traditional melting pot the US. Professor Colman, who studies demography at Oxford, made his findings from a study of international population projections, carried out for the academic outfit Migration Observatory. In the study, minorities are classed as people who also describe themselves in censuses as Irish or another nationality, as well as by their skin colour. Migration has become the "primary driver of demographic change," said Professor Coleman. Declining birth rates among white Britons is another factor, a trend which is also seen in France and Germany. The calculations are based on the current net rates of immigration, which have been running at more than 200,000 a year. Professor Coleman said that clamping down on the influx, which the government is attempting to do, could "dramatically change" the trend. At the end of the year, immigration restrictions will be lifted on Romanians and Bulgarians - prompting concerns that the numbers will rise yet further. Commenting on the number of babies currently being born to foreign-born parents, Andrew Green of Migration-Watch said the figures were "astonishing." "This is the clear result of Labour's mass immigration policy which is changing the nature of our society at a speed which is unacceptable to the public who of course were never consulted," he said. The figures - obtained after a parliamentary question by Mr Soames - show that 64.9 per cent of babies born in London in 2011 had either one or two parents born outside the UK. The next highest percentages were seen in the West Midlands, where 28.7 per cent had at least one foreign parent; followed by the South East at 27.7 per cent, and 26.9 per cent in the East of England, which covers counties to the north and east of the capital.