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Immigration, emigration and the ageing of the overseas-born population in the United Kingdom
- Authors:
- RENDALL Michael, BALL Deborah
- Journal article citation:
- Population Trends, 116, Summer 2004, pp.18-27.
- Publisher:
- Office for National Statistics
This article uses data from the 1971 and 2001 Censuses, the 1999-2003 Labour Force Survey and the 1997-2002 International Passenger Survey to investigate the migration processes contributing to the age structure and ageing of the UK's overseas-born population. Overall, almost half of recent decades' immigrants to the UK emigrate again within five years of arrival, but with large variation by overseas country of birth. Between half and two thirds of the immigrants born in the continental European Union, North America and Oceania emigrate again within five years, while 15 per cent of those born in the Indian subcontinent do so. Significant cumulative emigration more than five years after arrival is seen among earlier immigrants from the Indian subcontinent, the Caribbean Commonwealth and Europe. Large country-of-origin variations in the ratio of pension-age population to working-age population primarily reflect the country composition of immigration streams 30 or more years before.