{"id":595933,"date":"2026-05-21T09:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/595933\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T09:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:41:08","slug":"uk-net-migration-drops-to-171000-in-2025-lowest-since-2012-excluding-pandemic-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/595933\/","title":{"rendered":"UK net migration drops to 171,000 in 2025, lowest since 2012 excluding pandemic &#8211; follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK immigration and emigration &#8211; a closer look at the numberspublished at 09:55 BST<\/p>\n<p>09:55 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ONS provisionally estimates 642,000 people left the UK to live in another country long term during the year ending in December 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, the provisional estimate for total long-term immigration to the year ending December 2025 stands at 813,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Here&#8217;s a breakdown of the numbers:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Long-term emigration:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Non-EU+ nationals:  278,000 left the UK, just over half of these originally arrived with study-related visas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">EU+ nationals: 118,000 left the UK, down by 24% from the year before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British nationals: 246,000 British nationals left the UK, a slight decline of 4% from the 2024 estimates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Long-term immigration:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Non-EU+ nationals: Provisionally estimated at 627,000 &#8211; a decline from 780,000 the year before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">EU+ nationals: 76,000 arrived in the UK, a slight fall from the previous year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British nationals: 110,000 arrivals into the UK, down from 140,000 the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK immigration and emigration &#8211; a closer look at the numberspublished at 09:55 BST 09:55 BST The ONS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-595933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}