Immigration
813,000 people
People making a long-term move to the UK in each overlapping year-ending period. Latest estimates are provisional.
Period: YE Dec 25 · Geography: United KingdomImmigration and population
Topic dashboard
Migration flows, population change, labour-market effects and per-person services.
Net migration
171,000 people
Long-term immigration minus long-term emigration for overlapping year-ending periods. Latest estimates are provisional official statistics in development.
Period: YE Dec 25 · Geography: United KingdomEmigration
642,000 people
People making a long-term move out of the UK in each overlapping year-ending period. Latest estimates are provisional.
Period: YE Dec 25 · Geography: United KingdomUK population
69,487,000 people
Usually resident UK population at the middle of each year. The newest estimate may be provisional.
Period: 2025 · Geography: United KingdomPer-person context
Net migration per 1,000 residents
2.46
Calculated from net migration for YE Dec 25 and the latest published mid-year population estimate for 2025. The periods differ, so this is context rather than a same-period rate.
One reading
Migration can expand the workforce, skills base, demand and tax base.
Another reading
Impacts depend on age, earnings, housing supply and local service capacity; a net total alone cannot settle those questions.
What the data cannot prove: a movement does not by itself identify its cause or show that every person experienced the same outcome.
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