Migration Statistics, 2010

The bulletin includes an analysis of the key sources of data  on international migration, internal migration with the other parts of the UK and migration around Wales.

Total Migration

• Wales has experienced an estimated net inflow of migrants in every year since mid-1998.  On average Wales experienced a net inflow of 9.6 thousand people per year between mid-1998 and mid-2009.
• Migration to and from Wales has been variable over the last decade but Wales has experienced a net inflow of both international and internal (for the other parts of the UK) migrants in recent years.

International Migration

• Wales has had a net inflow of international migrants since 1994.  On average there has been a net inflow of around 2.4 thousand people per year in the period since 1994.  Both inflows and outflows of international migrants have risen since the A8 accession countries joined the EU in 2004.

Migration with other parts of the UK

• There is an estimated net inflow of migrants from the other parts of the UK into Wales, which has reduced since 2007.
• The majority of these migrants come from England.  Between mid-2006 and mid-2010 there was an average annual net inflow of 4.4 thousand migrants from England to Wales.

Migration between the difference parts of Wales

Looking at the average annual migration between the Welsh economic regions for the period year ending mid-2006 to year ending mid-2010

• The South West was the only region of Wales to experience a net inflow of migrants from all the other regions.  While North Wales was the only region to have a net outflow of migrants to all the other regions of Wales.

Revision note

The data in table 1 has been revised after an error was found to have occurred during internal processing.  The revised bulletin was published on the 18 November 2011.

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 1595
E-mail: stats.popcensus@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

October 2012 (provisional - to be confirmed on the 'Due Out Soon' page)