Brits abroad - a guide to where Britons live around the world

While immigration into the UK has received intense academic, media and political attention in recent years, the other side of the migration equation– namely emigration – has received relatively little consideration:

An estimated 5.5m British people live permanently abroad – almost one in 10 of the UK population. The emigration of British people has happened in cycles over 200 years. The trend is now rising again: some 2,000 British citizens moved permanently away from the UK every week in 2005.

BRITS ABROAD: THE TOP COUNTRIES

1) Australia 1,300,000
2) Spain 761,000
3) United States 678,000
4) Canada 603,000
5) Ireland 291,000
6) New Zealand 215,000
7) South Africa 212,000
8) France 200,000