Band 6+: Two charts: a line graph shows the number of people granted UK citizenship (in thousands) from 1992 to 2002 and a bar graph illustrates the number of people (in thousands) from Asia, Africa, America, Europe, Australia, and others, receiving UK citizenship in 1996 and 2002.

The line graph demonstrates the number of people who became British citizens from 1962 to 2002.The bar graph portrays the number of people who immigranted to the U.K. in 1996 and 2002 respectively.

From the accompanying graph, it can be seen that the total of U.K. citizens went up dramatically. The proportion of persons who became British citizens was almost 55 thousand in 1962 and increased to over 120 in 2002.

According to the bar graph, the origins of immigrants from Europe, Africa and Asia to the U.K. incresed steadily except for people from America, Australasia and others. Interestingly, the number of immigrnts from Asia was the highest, it was 49 thousand in 1996 and 58 thousand in 2002 respectively. From Africa it rapid went up from 9 thousand to the surprising 25 thousand. The number of people from Europe rose significant to 27 thousand from 9 thousand.Lastly, the number of immigrants from America, Australasia and other countries was a slight decrease, it was 5 thousand in 1996 and 4 thousand in 2002 respectively.