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Immigration

Answer

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated January 2009:"As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your question asking what contribution to population change in the UK was made by (a) natural growth and (b) net migration in each of the last 20 years. (249508)""The attached table shows the contribution of net migration and natural change to population change for the UK for the last 20 years since 1988."

Net migration and natural change for the UK for mid-year 1988 to mid-year 2007
Thousand
	Net migration and other changes¹, ²	Natural change
1988	-24	136
1989	21	139
1990	43	118
1991	48	153
1992	-11	157
1993	1	129
1994	36	112
1995	56	107
1996	62	77
1997	47	103
1998	60	100
1999	133	77
2000	139	62
2001	153	74

	Net migration	Other changes²	Natural change
2002	146	2	62
2003	152	5	77
2004	184	³—	104
2005	263	3	127
2006	189	2	159
2007	199	2	187
¹ It is not possible to separately identify and split net-migration and other changes in the years up to 2001. From 2002-07 net migration and other changes are shown separately.
² Other changes primarily include changes in the number of home and US armed forces and dependants resident in the UK.
³ Less than 1,000
Sources:
Office for National Statistics, General Register Office for Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

487 c122-3W; 249508

Session

2008-09

Subjects

Population

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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