The (UK) Office for National Statistics this week published data on immigration to the UK in 2001. (Go here and follow the links from the top news item.) Currently just over 1 in 12 (8.3%) of UK residents were born elsewhere. (This presumably doesn’t include those smuggled in, who are kinda difficult to count.)
Contrary to some impressions, more than half of these immigrants are ‘white’. But white immigrants (from Europe, North America, or Australasia), tend not to stay in the UK permanently – see the interesting article in Population Trends.
BTW, is it just my fancy, or has the ONS website improved hugely over the last year?
Posted by David B at 04:26 AM