Tuesday, March 21, 2017

UK Immigration Numbers Reach New Record




How is immigration nowadays in the United Kingdom?

Well, it is interesting to take a look at how things are when it comes to immigration in this country in Europe. One of the recent studies have shown that during the first half of 2016, the country had welcomed quite a number of people – a total of 650,000 individuals. This number has actually broken the former record for the country.

This number has come from the Office for National Statistics, which is the official bureau for statistics for the United Kingdom. This means that despite the plans on the country exiting the European Union, it has not deterred all of those individuals who have been planning on being an immigrant to the country.

The numbers have gone up

So what exactly do the numbers of UK immigration tell us?

From the 650,000 individuals who have entered the country as immigrants during the first half of the year for 2016, 284,000 actually were citizens from the European Union. These people have decided to come to the country and live there. This was definitely a new record as compared to the previous high of 265,000 which came from the same period the year before that, 2015.

It also was almost close to the immigrants who have come from other countries aside from those that are part of the EU. Those immigrants came up to a total of 289,000. The rest of the total actually were the Britons who have been abroad and have decided to return home. They came up to a total of 77,000.

What do the immigration numbers mean?

Nicola White works as the Office for National Statistics’ international migration statistics head. In a statement, she had disclosed that the levels of immigration in the country for that certain period last year has actually broken previous records. She also continued that the number of citizens from the European Union are just around the same as those who are from non-EU countries.

As per the countries of origin of those who are not from the European Union, it was in 2015 that Romania had been the top country of immigrants. This was the first time that it had happened and the Romanians who have come to the United Kingdom reached a total of 54,000.

China had a total of 44,000 individuals taking advantage of immigration to the UK. This country came in second to Romania. Poland was third with 38,000 immigrants in total. India came next having 36,000 individuals moving to the UK.

White had continued to share that one of the top reasons as per why people are choosing the UK for immigration is because they are looking for work and the work opportunities in the UK are far better from the ones in their home country.

 

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