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ONS · Long-term international migration, provisional

Immigration by nationality

2025 Provisional

813,000people

Immigration by nationality were 813,000 people in 2025, down 19.7% (199,000) from 1,012,000 in 2024.

▼ 19.7% · −199,000 against 2024 (year on year)

  1. ONS estimate
  2. 2025
  3. published 21 May 2026
  4. Table 1
  5. row “Immigration”
  6. column “YE Dec 25 P”
  7. cell value 813000

The series is falling. Rule: down 5.7% from Year ending September 2025 to 2025.

Year ending June 2012 to 2025

Immigration by nationality: 2012 to 2025CoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour0500k1m2015202020252012: 643,000 people · published 21 May 20262013: 713,000 people · published 21 May 20262014: 778,000 people · published 21 May 20262015: 797,000 people · published 21 May 20262016: 772,000 people · published 21 May 20262017: 752,000 people · published 21 May 20262018: 825,000 people · published 21 May 20262019: 788,000 people · published 21 May 20262020: 662,000 people · published 21 May 20262021: 947,000 people · published 21 May 20262022: 1,398,000 people · published 21 May 20262023: 1,441,000 people · published 21 May 20262024: 1,012,000 people · published 21 May 20262025: 813,000 people · published 21 May 2026
Published valueProvisional or revisedLatestOne point a year is drawn; the source publishes overlapping year-ending figures, and every one is in the history table and CSVShaded bands: governments (see labels)Hover or use arrow keys to read a value

What this measures

The estimated number of people who moved to the UK intending to stay at least 12 months, over a 12-month period, split into the three nationality groups ONS publishes in Table 1 - British, EU+ (EU countries plus EFTA and associated microstates), and non-EU+.

What this doesn’t measure

Individual nationalities (ONS publishes only the three groups in this table), country of birth, or where in the UK people settled.

Important caveat

ONS estimates of long-term international migration are produced from administrative data and are rounded to the nearest thousand. The most recent periods are provisional and are revised in later publications, sometimes by tens or hundreds of thousands, as more data becomes available.

Revision history

No period of this series has been revised since it was first ingested here. Revisions are recorded automatically when a later release publishes a different figure for the same period.

Source

Publisher
ONS
Publication
Long-term international migration, provisional
Release
Year ending December 2025, published 21 May 2026
Source file
may2026publicationspreadsheet.xlsx
File SHA-256
254a57a0d1e30c40c42843290c6dcc8ccb935ad26ac9148ad2665846ff7e9147
Retrieved
4 September 2026
Sheet
1
Table
Table 1
Row
Immigration
Column
YE Dec 25 P
Cell value
813000
Geography
United Kingdom
Unit
people
API
/api/metrics/immigration_by_nationality · /series · /vintages

Government periods

Change during each government, from the level inherited to the last complete period before it left office. Describes the period; does not attribute cause.

Labour 2024–1,299,000Year ending June 2024813,0002025↓ 37.4%
Conservative 2019–2024793,000Year ending September 20191,299,000Year ending June 2024↑ 63.8%
Conservative 2017–2019759,000Year ending March 2017793,000Year ending September 2019↑ 4.5%
Conservative 2015–2017780,000Year ending March 2015759,000Year ending March 2017↓ 2.7%

Full comparison with chart

Release
Year ending December 2025 · publication page
Last updated
21 May 2026
Next scheduled release
26 November 2026 (official date)