The foreign-born population of the United Kingdom includes immigrants from a wide range of countries who are resident in the United Kingdom (UK).
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Size of the foreign-born population
At the time of the most recent UK census, conducted in April 2001, 8.3 per cent of the country's population were foreign-born.[1] Figures for each census since 1951 are given in the table below. In 2005, the foreign-born population was estimated at 9.1 per cent, compared to a European Union average of 8.6 per cent.[2] It has been estimated that the foreign-born population had grown to 10.6 per cent by 2007.[3]
| Census | Foreign-born population |
Percentage increase over previous decade |
Percentage of total population[4] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 2,118,600 | 4.2 | |
| 1961 | 2,573,500 | 21.5 | 4.9 |
| 1971 | 3,190,300 | 24.0 | 5.8 |
| 1981 | 3,429,100 | 7.5 | 6.2 |
| 1991 | 3,835,400 | 11.8 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 4,896,600 | 27.7 | 8.3 |
Countries of origin
The table below lists the places of birth of UK residents according to the 2001 Census, as reported by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.[5] The table also lists population estimates of the foreign-born population for the top 60 foreign countries of birth in the period January to December 2008, published by the Office for National Statistics.[6][3]
Institute for Public Policy Research analysis
In 2005 the Institute for Public Policy Research published an analysis of data from the 2001 Census, revealing the number of people included in the census who were born outside the British Isles, where they lived, and comparing this information against the 1991 Census.[8] The results were made available on the BBC website.[9] Note that this data refers to Great Britain only, rather than the whole of the UK, because of the lack of digital boundaries in the census data for Northern Ireland.[8]
See also
References
- ^ "Foreign-born: 1 in 12 in UK born overseas". Office for National Statistics. 2005-12-15. http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=1312. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
- ^ Muenz, Rainer (June 2006). "Europe: Population and migration in 2005". Migration Policy Institute. http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=402. Retrieved 14 December 2009.
- ^ a b c Ellis, Amy (2009). "UK resident population by country of birth". Population Trends 135: 20–28. http://www.statistics.gov.uk/articles/population_trends/PT135POPCOBARTICLE.pdf.
- ^ Rendall, Michael; Salt, John (2005). "The foreign-born population". in Office for National Statistics. Focus on People and Migration: 2005 edition. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 131–152. ISBN 1403993270. http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_compendia/fom2005/08_FOPM_ForeignBorn.pdf.
- ^ "Country-of-birth database". Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/18/23/34792376.xls. Retrieved 2008-09-21.
- ^ "Table 1.3: Estimated population resident in the United Kingdom, by foreign country of birth, 60 most common countries of birth, January 2008 to December 2008". Office for National Statistics. http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_population/Population-by-country-of-birth-and-nationality-Jan08-Dec08.zip. Retrieved 2009-10-04.
- ^ Figure given is the central estimate. See the source for 95 per cent confidence intervals.
- ^ a b Kyambi, Sarah (2005). Beyond Black and White: Mapping new immigrant communities. London: Institute for Public Policy Research. http://www.ippr.org.uk/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=308.
- ^ "Introduction and figures for Britain". Born Abroad: An immigration map of Britain. BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/uk/05/born_abroad/html/overview.stm. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
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