The number of persons received UK citizenship as well as their origin has been depicted by line chart and bar graph from 1996 to 2002. The data has been calibrated in thousands.
Overall, it is noticeable that, Asia recorded highest immigrants to the United Kingdom. Whereas ,it was lowest in terms of America, Australia and others. Conversely, there was a significant increase in the UK citizens over the period.
According to the details, in 1962, there were about 20,000 permanent residents in United kingdom .Afterwards, it peaked to 40,000 in a period of 10 years. Surprisingly, from 1972 to 1982 , the natives dropped by 10,000 number of natives and then soared to 1,20,000 in 2002.
Turning to the further details, in 1996 ,a large number of immigrants came to England which was 49,000 and then the figure climbed to 58,000 in 2002. Although there were only 9000 people from Europe and Africa came to Britain , their numbers surged to 27,000 and 25,000 respectively in 2002. Surprisingly, other countries observed a significant decline in the amount of inhabitants by 1000 in 2002.