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500 Britons leave UK daily
20/04/2007 20:42 - (SA)
London - About 500 Britons a day are leaving the country, with Australia, Spain and France the most popular destinations, although far more new immigrants are arriving, official figures showed on Friday.
The most recent statistics show that 380 000 people emigrated from Britain for a year or more, of whom more than half were British citizens.
In the same period, 565 000 migrants arrived to live in Britain for at least a year, boosting the country's overall population by 185 000, the highest figure since 1991, said National Statistics.
Of those arriving, 80 000 came from eastern European countries which joined the European Union in May 2004, with 70% of these Polish citizens, according to the 2005 figures.
In 2004-05, 71 000 Britons emigrated to Australia compared to 58 000 to Spain and 4 200 to France.
At the same time, 99 000 came to this country from India, 76 000 from Poland and 59 000 from China.
Nearly half of those coming to Britain gave work-related reasons, while almost a quarter of immigrants came to study in Britain.
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