About this data
- The share born abroad is the UN's estimate for the UK, published every five years (plus 2024). ONS's own estimate for mid-2024 is a little higher, at 18.9%.
- Violence is measured by the Crime Survey for England and Wales, which asks a large random sample of adults whether they were victims of violence in the previous 12 months, whether or not they reported it to the police. It is the best measure of long-term trends in violent crime. It does not include homicide, or violence against children under 16.
- The survey was not run every year before 2001, and there are no comparable figures for 2020/21 and 2021/22. Survey years are financial years, shown by the year they end.
- The two series cover different areas (the UK, and England and Wales). Showing national trends side by side can't tell us whether one affects the other: many other things changed over the same period.
This chart appears in Migration.