ONS · nationality: British

Net migration: British

2025

-136,000 people

Net migration for British totalled -136,000 people in the period to 2025, down 3.0% (4,000) on the period before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. 1
  3. Net migration
  4. column “YE Dec 25 P
  5. -136000 per period
  6. published 21 May 2026

Year ending June 2012 to 2025

Net migration by nationality: 2012 to 2025CoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour-100k-50k02015202020252012: -72,000 people · published 21 May 20262013: -81,000 people · published 21 May 20262014: -80,000 people · published 21 May 20262015: -73,000 people · published 21 May 20262016: -94,000 people · published 21 May 20262017: -81,000 people · published 21 May 20262018: -72,000 people · published 21 May 20262019: -82,000 people · published 21 May 20262020: -78,000 people · published 21 May 20262021: -69,000 people · published 21 May 20262022: -81,000 people · published 21 May 20262023: -104,000 people · published 21 May 20262024: -117,000 people · published 21 May 20262025: -136,000 people · published 21 May 2026

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The chart as a table
PeriodNet migration by nationality
2012-72,000 people
2013-81,000 people
2014-80,000 people
2015-73,000 people
2016-94,000 people
2017-81,000 people
2018-72,000 people
2019-82,000 people
2020-78,000 people
2021-69,000 people
2022-81,000 people
2023-104,000 people
2024-117,000 people
2025-136,000 people

What this measures

The estimated number of people who moved to the UK minus the number who left, each intending a stay or absence of at least 12 months, over a 12-month period, split into the three nationality groups ONS publishes in Table 1 - British, EU+ (EU countries plus EFTA and associated microstates), and non-EU+.

Individual nationalities (ONS publishes only the three groups in this table), country of birth, or where in the UK people settled.

Source

Dataset
Long-term international migration, provisional
Release
Year ending December 2025, published 21 May 2026 · sha256 254a57a0d1e30c40
All values
Net migration by nationality