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Web migration to the UK from nations outdoors the European Union has risen to its highest stage for 45 years, the Workplace for Nationwide Statistics says.
Figures present an estimated 282,000 extra non-EU residents got here to the UK than left in 2019, the best because the data was first gathered in 1975.
The ONS says an increase in college students from China and India has pushed this.
In distinction, the variety of folks arriving from EU nations for work has “steadily fallen”.
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Jay Lindop, director of the Centre for Worldwide Migration on the ONS, stated: “Total migration ranges have remained broadly steady lately, however new patterns have emerged for EU and non-EU migrants since 2016.
“For the yr ending December 2019, non-EU migration was on the highest stage we’ve got seen, pushed by an increase in college students from China and India, whereas the variety of folks arriving from EU nations for work has steadily fallen.
“We all know the coronavirus pandemic has had a big affect on journey since December and new evaluation in the present day exhibits how worldwide journey to and from the UK has decreased in latest months.”