Migration: How many people come to the UK and how have rules changed?

Net migration – the number of people coming to the UK, minus the number leaving – was 728,000 in the year to June 2024. The provisional figures are from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), external.

That is a 20% drop from the number of people who came in the 12 months to June 2023. The newly revised total for that period was 906,000, far higher than the previous estimate of 740,000.

The ONS estimates that 1.2 million people expecting to stay at least a year came to the UK in the year to June 2024. It estimates that 479,000 left the UK.