British Expat Numbers on the Rise
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The number of UK nationals moving abroad has increased by 24 per cent in a year, with almost 400,000 people emigrating abroad from Britain in 2008. Perhaps hoping to escape the effects of the recession, a total of 395,000 people left the UK during 2008, compared with 318,000 in 2007.
According to the Office of National Statistics, approximately 158,000 British citizens left the country last year to join the expat community overseas, the majority moving to Australia through the Australian General Skilled Migration Programme. Other popular destinations include New Zealand, Spain, France and the United States.
The remaining 237,000 were foreigners returning home or leaving for other countries.
These new figures suggest that, on average, three Britons are leaving the country every minute, and that under Labour government since 1997 around two million UK citizens have emigrated, representing the fastest rate of emigration since the First World War.
Posted on: Friday, August 28, 2009 at 3:49 pm 
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