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Emigration: record highs and lows

The extremes of emigration as published by ONS, across the 55 periods held here (Year ending June 2012 to 2025). Each record is a published figure, not a computed one, and the scope is this series — not “ever”.

Highest published

685,000Year ending March 2025

Lowest published

446,000Year ending March 2013

The full series

Emigration: 2012 to 2025CoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour0200k400k600k2015202020252012: 448,000 people · published 21 May 20262013: 469,000 people · published 21 May 20262014: 494,000 people · published 21 May 20262015: 494,000 people · published 21 May 20262016: 523,000 people · published 21 May 20262017: 544,000 people · published 21 May 20262018: 549,000 people · published 21 May 20262019: 605,000 people · published 21 May 20262020: 569,000 people · published 21 May 20262021: 480,000 people · published 21 May 20262022: 508,000 people · published 21 May 20262023: 593,000 people · published 21 May 20262024: 680,000 people · published 21 May 20262025: 642,000 people · published 21 May 2026
Published valueProvisional or revisedLatestOne point a year is drawn; the source publishes overlapping year-ending figures, and every one is in the history table and CSVShaded bands: governments (see labels)Hover, tap or use arrow keys to read a value; tap again to unpin
The chart as a table
PeriodEmigration
2012448,000 people
2013469,000 people
2014494,000 people
2015494,000 people
2016523,000 people
2017544,000 people
2018549,000 people
2019605,000 people
2020569,000 people
2021480,000 people
2022508,000 people
2023593,000 people
2024680,000 people
2025642,000 people

What a record here is, and is not

A record is the extreme of the periods this site holds for the current series, at each period’s newest published release. Earlier series measured under different methods are not compared against it. Money is in cash terms: a record set years ago stands against the money of its own year.