The number of persons who received UK citizenship, as well as their origin, has been depicted by a line chart and a bar graph from 1992 to 2002. The data has been calibrated in thousands.
Overall, it is noticeable that, Asia recorded highest number of immigrants to the United Kingdom, whereas it was lowest in terms of America, Australia and others. Conversely, there was a significant increase in the number of UK citizens over the period.
According to the details, in 1962, there were about 20,000 permanent residents in United kingdom .Afterwards, it peaked at 40,000 in a period of 10 years. Surprisingly, till 1992 , the number of natives dropped by 10,000 and then soared to 1,20,000 from 1992 to 2002.
Turning to the further details, in 1996 , 49 thousand immigrants came to England and then the figure climbed to 58,000 in 2002. Although only 9000 people from Europe and Africa came to Britain , then surged to 27,000 and 25,000 respectively in 2002. Surprisingly, other countries observed a significant decline in the population of inhabitants by 1000 in 2002.
