The pie charts illustrate the percentage of six reasons for migration to and from the UK in 2007. Overall, it can be seen that the proportion of people looking for a definite job was the highest for both immigration and emigration. Although formal study was one of the most common reasons for immigration, that in emigration was just a minor purpose.
The rate of population immigrating and emigrating for their jobs was approximately similar, at 30% and 29% respectively. In addition, 22% of the people who emigrated for looking for work was almost double 12% of immigration cases for the same reason. Just over a quarter of the population immigrated for studying, whereas this figure for emigrants was 4%.
Similarly, 13% of people accompanying or joining by emigrating was nearly the same as that of immigrating (15%). There were 18% of the population who emigrated from the UK and did not state their purposes for doing so, and this figure was three times as high as that of immigrating.