T he UK has greater population growth than other developed European countries. This growth is partly due to natural increase, but it is also affected by net migration: the balance between the numbers of in-migrants and out-migrants.
Go to the Neighbourhood Statistics website at www.tinyurl.com/ngkyrvx and press the ‘Play’ icon on the chart. You will see the marker pass through the years from 1964 to 2013. In the lower left, in blue, is the number of ‘Immigrants’ (in thousands) per year, and in orange the number of ‘Emigrants’. The balance between the two is known as ‘Net migration’. If net migration is a negative number it means that more people left the UK than arrived that year. If it is positive it indicates more arrivals than leavers that year. The bars on the graph represent net migration per year.
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