Will the Caribbean community survive population decline?
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Low birth rates, more mixed relationships, and the elderly joining their ancestors are all contributing to fall in census numbers.
By Leah Mahon
The Caribbean community in Britain has faced a sharp decline in numbers, while African communities have surged, prompting fears that Caribbeans could eventually ‘vanish’.
The Caribbean community were the only ethnic group to show a decline in the recent population census, with experts suggesting this could be because of low birth rates, more mixed relationships, and the older generation returning to the islands.
To understand the rise and fall in Britain’s Caribbean population, a good place to start is history.
More than 100 years before the Empire Windrush landed, black people had already formed a presence in Britain during the Roman conquest period, but most notably between the 16th-18th century.
The Tudor and Stuart eras saw a significant presence of Africans in London, many of them freed slaves and some revolutionary abolitionists.
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