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Long-term immigration has fallen year-on-year, with an estimated 1.2 million people coming to live in the UK in the 12 months to June 2024, down from 1.3 million in the year to June 2023.
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 ...
Reasons for migration are changing, with a rise in arrivals to work and a drop in arrivals on study and humanitarian grounds.
ONS has identified several limitations in current data sources, and is currently developing new approaches to producing migration statistics to address them. This is likely to lead to substantial changes in official migration data between now and 2023. The foreign-born will include some people who are born abroad to UK citizen parents.
COVID-19 in the UK: Office for National Statistics data for the week ending 7 March (6 March in Scotland) indicates COVID-19 cases are falling in Scotland, but the picture is uncertain in the rest of the UK. In England, the survey suggests that 1,322,000 tested positive for the virus, equating to 2.36% of the population, or around 1 in 40. [185]
In 2023, there has been a change in the countries of origin of small boat arrivals. A 90% reduction in the number of Albanians crossing the Channel has been quoted by some government ministers, [69] with 927 Albanians recorded for 2023 (2022: 12,301). The top 10 nationalities for 2023 are recorded below: [3]
The 2023 migration figure is down from a record in 2022, according to the Office for National Statistics. Net migration to UK drops after hitting record levels, fuelling election debate Skip to ...
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. Of the 1,218,000 immigrants who came to the UK in 2023, only 126,000 were citizens of EU member states. [6]