How Many Brits Leave the UK Each Year? - Synergy Immigration Solutions Limited (2024)

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In the year ending June 2022, around 471,000 British people emigrated to other countries, while up to June 2023, this number rose to 508,000 Brits leaving the UK.

In the year ending December 2023, approximately 532,000 people emigrated from the United Kingdom, 98,000 of which were British citizens, 202,000 were EU citizens, and a further 233,000 were non-EU citizens.

As of the year ending June 2022, there were an estimated 10,388,000 people in England and Wales who were not born in the UK. This accounts for approximately 14.8% of the total UK population.

An estimated 5.5m British people live permanently abroad – almost one in 10 of the UK population. The emigration of British people has happened in cycles over 200 years. The trend is now rising again: some 2,000 British citizens moved permanently away from the UK every week in 2005.

Higher quality of life elsewhere including lower costs of living, easier access to healthcare and education. Political instability or dissatisfaction with the UK government's actions and policies. To move closer to family. Preferable climate or natural environment elsewhere.

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Table 1.1 illustrates that the most common countries of residence are Australia (1.2 million), United States (701,000) and Canada (675,000). The main destinations of GB emigrants within Europe are Spain (411,000), Ireland (397,000), France (173,000) and Germany (155,000).

We've already done some research to know the things Brits have to adjust to in the U.S., so we decided to go deeper and find out as much as we could about British expats living in the States. It's no surprise that New York City is home to the most amount of Brits.

Britons' favourite country is not, in fact, their own – although the Union Jack can still be found in its flag. The honour of Britain's favourite country actually goes to New Zealand, with 80% of us saying we have a positive opinion of the nation.

Based on 2020 American Community Survey estimates, 1,934,397 individuals identified as having British ancestry, while a further 25,213,619 identified as having English ancestry, 5,298,861 Scottish ancestry and 1,851,256 Welsh ancestry. The total of these groups, at 34,298,133, was 10.5% of the total population.

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The U.S. government doesn't formally track how many Americans leave the U.S. but the most recent estimate puts the figure at nearly nine million. This figure represents a doubling of the 1999 figure, placed at 4.1 million.

Source – Office for National Statistics – 2021 Census

The top three from this list are Poland (663,000, 89.3%), Romania (477,000, 88.6%) and India (423,000, 45.9%). The proportion of residents holding a UK passport can give an indication of naturalisation for non-UK countries of birth.

The United Kingdom is an ethnically diverse society. The largest ethnic group in the United Kingdom is White British, followed by Asian British.

What Does Expat Mean? Expat is an abbreviation of the word 'expatriate'. According to the Oxford dictionary, “expat/expatriate is a person who lives outside their native country”. Their example phrase being “a British expat who's been living in Amsterdam for 14 years”.

There were approximately 166 thousand American nationals residing in the United Kingdom in 2021, an increase from the 131 thousand American nationals residing in the United Kingdom in 2008.

8% of Brits have never been abroad.

There are some British people living in the US, but most of them who sound British are first generation immigrants. Many of them live in Boston, New York City, and the San Francisco Bay area. There used to be a Mid-Atlantic accent that was the standard educated accent in the US.

Key Takeaways. More than 200,000 British senior citizens chose to live outside the UK, with the majority retiring in Europe. The main destinations for UK citizens are Spain, Bulgaria, Malta and Cyprus while Portugal is their favourite one.