Migration Fuelled Largest Population Rise in 75 Years: ONS

Published on July 15, 2024

Immigration has fuelled the largest rise to the population of England and Wales in 75 years, according to official statistics released on Monday. The population rose by some 610,000 to 60.9 million in mid-2023, the biggest spike in the number of people in a single year since the post-war baby-boom of 1948, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. Statistics show that around 1,084,000 people immigrated to England and Wales in the year to mid 2023 and 462,000 emigrated making the total net international migration 622,000. In the same time period, net internal moves out of England and Wales to the rest of the UK totalled 13,800. The population for the entire UK was 67.6 million in mid-2022, but data for 2023 are currently not available....

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