About this data

Source: ONS, Long-term international migration, provisional: year ending December 2025 (Table 9)

• Estimates are rolled forward from the 2021 Census (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) and 2022 Census (Scotland) using mortality and long-term migration data.
• “EU” is EU+: EU member states plus Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland.
• On this basis, 18.9% of the UK population was born abroad in mid-2024 (16.9% in 2022).

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