FOI reference: FOI-2025-2727

You asked

Can you provide me with the following statistics please?

  • Legal immigration number every year since 2018
  • Illegal immigration number every year since 2018
  • Emigration number every year since 2018
  • Percentage and amount by person of UK that is EU National each year since 2018
  • Percentage and amount by person of UK that is non-EU National each year since 2018
  • Estimated numbers of non recorded illegal immigrants in UK each year since 2018

We Said

Thank you for your freedom of information request. 

Long-term international migration, provisional: year ending June 2024 provides estimates of UK long-term international migration year ending June 2012 to year ending June 2024. This includes immigration and emigration. 

We do not collect information on 'illegal migrants'. Information on irregular migration is included in the 'How many people come to the UK irregularly?' chapter within the Home Office's 'Immigration system statistics quarterly release'. A complete list of published data on irregular migration to the UK can be found in the 'Irregular migration detailed datasets and summary tables' chapter.