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About 70% of the population increase between the 2001 and 2011 censuses was due to foreign-born immigration. [79] Long-term net migration (the number of people immigrating minus the number emigrating) reached a record high of 764,000 in 2022, [80] with immigration at 1.26 million and emigration at 493,000. [81]
In 2021, net migration to the UK was 488,000, [85] [86] up from 184,000 in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic. [87] Net migration to the UK reached a record high of 764,000 in 2022, with immigration at 1.26 million and emigration at 493,000. [7] Most of the migrants came from non-EU countries, including India, Nigeria, China and Pakistan.
The history of Polish migration to the United Kingdom gives an indicator of why Poles predominated so much. A large number of Polish citizens had been allowed to settle after the Second World War in a resettlement programme for those who had no wish to live under the new Communist Polish regime, (see earlier section).
– Total net migration. Estimated net migration to the UK stood at a provisional total of 728,000 in the year to June 2024, down 20% from a revised record of 906,000 in the year to June 2023.
Before the Act was passed, citizens of Commonwealth countries had extensive rights to migrate to the UK.For instance, in the sparsely populated frontier area of San Tin in Hong Kong, 85–90 percent of the able-bodied males left for the United Kingdom between 1955 and 1962 to work in British factories, foundries, railways, buses, hotels, and restaurants.
Reasons for migration are changing, with a rise in arrivals to work and a drop in arrivals on study and humanitarian grounds.
In the same period there were migrations of Britons to the Armorican peninsula (Brittany and Normandy in modern-day France): initially around 383 during Roman rule, but also c. 460 and in the 540s and 550s; the 460s migration is thought to be a reaction to the fighting during the Anglo-Saxon mutiny between about 450 to 500, as was the migration ...
Net migration to the UK in the year to June 2023 has been revised up from an initial estimate of 740,000 to an estimated record 906,000, while the total for the year to December 2023 has been ...