Career
Between 1985 and 1987 he worked for the British Government, as the Special Adviser to the Home Secretary, and then to the Ministers of Housing and of the Environment. He is a fellow of Street John"s College, Oxford. He has published over 90 papers and eight books and was the joint editor of the European Journal of Population from 1992 to 2000.
In 1997 he was elected to the Council of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population.
In 2013, Coleman"s analysis said that White British people would be a minority in the United Kingdom by 2070 if current immigration trends continued.