Revealed: The European countries where up to 40 per cent of the population have moved abroad (and yes, they’re almost all in the East)
- Countries such as Portugal and Croatia have seen one in five people emigrate
- A detailed map shows the percentage of people who have left their country
- Around 4.97million people (7.6 per cent) left the United Kingdom by 2015
European countries including Portugal, Croatia, Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro and Moldova have seen more than a fifth of their population emigrate.
Meanwhile, the detailed map shows how almost five million people who were born in the United Kingdom had left to move to other countries by the end of 2015.
A detailed map shows that 43.3 per cent of those born in Bosnia and Herzegovina had left the country by 2015
Figures from the population division of the UN show the percentage of people who have left the country they were born in.
In Ireland, 18.8 per cent of those born in the country have left to move to another.
The highest number of people to leave was in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Around 1.6 million people born in the country were living overseas by 2015.
This was the equivalent of 43.3 per cent – five per cent more than the next country, Albania.
For emigrating Brits, it seems Australia is the most popular destination, reports Richard Ford at The Times.
The United Kingdom was the most popular destination for those who were born in Lithuania, Ireland and Cyprus
And the figures of 4.97 million Brits living overseas is the highest in the European Union, followed by Poland with 4.4 million people.
The number of Poles living in other countries was 11.5 per cent of its population in 2015 – a higher percentage than the UK.
Germany had 4 million people leave the country by the end of 2015 – or 5 per cent – while Italy had 2.9 million – equating to 4.9 per cent.
Alp Mehmet, vice-chairman of Migration Watch UK, campaigns for lower immigration and said the figures were a result of huge disparities in income levels.
He told the paper: ‘This is the result of huge disparities in income levels and living standards between the rich and less well-off member states of the EU and other poorer European countries.’
For comparison: The corresponding figure for the United States is just 0.9%. Although high percentages are shown in red in the map, high numbers are not necessarily bad per se (if emigration is counteracted by high birth rate or immigration, as in the case of Ireland and Portugal). However, most “blue” and “red” countries in the map have been losing population for several decades.
It is also worth noting that the UN data are based on the place of birth, not citizenship or ethnicity. This means, for example, that a German citizen born to a German family living in Poland who later moved from Poland to Germany would count as an emigrant from Poland, even though he or she has never been a Polish citizen.
With that in mind, take a look at the following map, which shows the most common destination of emigrants, that is, the country that hosts the largest immigrant population from each given country:
The United Kingdom was the most popular destination for those who were born in Lithuania, Ireland and Cyprus
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Last year, I published a map showing the current state of immigration in Europe. However, I realized that the data contained in the 2015 UN study could also be analysed the other way around—rather than the numbers and most common countries of origin of immigrants, it is possible to create a map showing the numbers of emigrants and the most common destinations of emigrants.
And this is exactly what this article is about. The following map shows the number of people who emigrated from a given country, as a percentage of its current population(or, more precisely, population in 2015). Let me clarify this with an example: The population of Poland in 2015 was approximately 38,612,000, according to the UN, and the number of people born in Poland who lived in a different country was 4,449,000, hence the figure 4,449,000/38,612,000 ≈ 11.5%
Similarly, most emigrants from Bulgaria and Macedonia to Turkey are ethnic Turks. If emigrants to Turkey are excluded, most Bulgarians emigrate to Spain, and most Macedonians emigrate (rather surprisingly) to Switzerland.
Finally, the pattern seen in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus is quite expected considering they used to be one nation with a highly mixed population until 1990. If we exclude all post-Soviet states, Russians emigrate mostly to Germany and Ukrainians and Belarusians to the United states.
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