What country has the highest population of people with some British descent?
In the 2000 US Census, 12.9 percent of the US population, or 36,514,465 individuals, claimed some form of British descent. Moreover 7.3 percent, or 20,625,693 respondents, choose the category “American”, most of whom were of old colonial British stock, living primarily in the American South, making a grand total of 57,139,558 Americans of British descent. This corresponds with the 1980 Census wherein over 61 million Americans claimed some form of British ancestry. Nevertheless, if all categories of British ancestry are added together (English, Welsh, Scottish, Scots-Irish), they form the largest single ‘ethnic” or original language-speaking group in the United States, making up around 13 percent of the population. Statistics for the 2010 US Census are not yet available, although the percentage of European Americans is decreasing while the ratio for Hispanic Ameicans is increasing. By way of contrast, the 2001 United Kingdom Census enumerated 58,789,194 people. while in 2008 approximate
