Definition
- Net migration
- Net migration is immigration minus emigration: the number of people moving to live in a country for a year or more, less the number moving out.
- Not to be confused with: Immigration
- Immigration is people changing their country of usual residence to the UK for a year or more, following the UN definition of a long-term migrant.
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What is the difference between net migration and immigration?
Immigration counts only arrivals; net migration also subtracts the people who leave.