The pie diagrams illustrate the primary causes behind people's decision to immigrate to and emigrate from the UK in the year 2014.
The most striking feature of the charts is that the majority of people migrated for work-related reasons, and this was true for both immigration to and emigration from the UK. However, the proportion of people migrating for study was significantly higher among immigrants than among emigrants.
Delving into the details, 61% of the individuals who moved to the UK did so for work, while a further 30% arrived for study purposes. The remaining 9% migrated due to other reasons. On the other hand, the emigration from the UK was dominated by work-related migration, accounting for 72% of the total. The proportion of people leaving the UK for study was much smaller, at only 9%, with the remaining 19% citing other reasons for their departure.
In conclusion, work was the main driving force behind the migration to and from the UK in 2014, but a significant number of people also migrated to the UK for study, a trend that was not mirrored in the emigration figures.
