Poles as second largest minority in UK

Number of Poles living in the UK has risen to 916,000 in total, which is 63,000 more than one year ago, the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported. Poles come ahead of the second largest minority without a British passport in the UK – Indians. According to ONS, Polish women in the UK give birth to 23,000 children a year. Nearly 12 percent (108,000 people) of Poles living in the UK were born in the Kingdom. When compared with figures from 2003 (a year before Poland joined the European Union) the population of Poles in Great Britain has increased more than twentyfold.