The pie graphs illustrate why people immigrated to and emigrated from the UK in 2007.
Overall, the proportion of people who looked for a definite job was the highest for both immigrating and emigrating. It is also clear that despite a large number of people immigrating to the UK for formal study, the figure for emigrating was the lowest among all purposes.
The percentage of people immigrating to find a definite job was similar to that of emigrating, with respective figures being 30% and 29%. Similarly, the proportion of immigrants and emigrants accompanying or joining was nearly the same, which was 15% and 13%, in that order.
26% of people moved to the UK for formal study, which was far higher than that of moving out. Meanwhile, the figure for emigrating to look for work was 22%, which was double that of immigrating (12%). Similarly, the share of people having other reasons or no reason stated to migrate from the UK was triple that of migrating to the UK, which was 32% and 17%, respectively.