The bar chart illustrates the number of English-proficient immigrants arrive England and Wales from before 1961 to 2011.
In general, the figure for European and Middle Eastern and Asian having a good command in English have a erractic behavior. Also, the figure for competent English speakers immigrate to Europe is higher than the remainder.
Before 1961, the number of immigrants who have the proficiency in English arrived Europe was three times than the figure for those immigrated to Middle East and Asia, with about 310,000, followed by a fluctuation over the course of 16 years. Between 1997 to 2000, there was a dramatic increase of 100,000 in the number of proficient English speakers immigrate to Europe, and this statistic remained unchanged in the next six years before it increased to its trough of over 500,000 from 2004 to 2006. In the end of the given time, the figure for European who spoke English fluently decrease dramatically by approximately 300,000.
The figure for Middle Eastern and Asian having the proficiency in English increased significantly from just under 100,000 before 1961 to 270,000 between 1971 and 1980. After remainding unchanged in this statistic during a decade, there was a fluctuation in the number of English-competent immigrants arrive Middle East and Asia. Following this, a considerable rise to 400,000 in the figure after declining at over 200,000 from 2010 to 2011.