{"id":89614,"date":"2026-05-21T14:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/uk-net-migration-down-48-year-on-year-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T14:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:44:17","slug":"uk-net-migration-down-48-year-on-year-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/uk-net-migration-down-48-year-on-year-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"UK net migration down 48% year on year | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Net migration to the UK fell to 171,000 in 2025, new figures show &#8211; the lowest level since 2012, excluding <!--more--> the Covid pandemic<\/p>\n<p>The figure reached a peak of 944,000 in the year to March 2023, but has been falling.<\/p>\n<p>The Office for National Statistics said the main reason behind the fall last year was a drop in non-EU nationals arriving for &#8220;work-related reasons&#8221;, which was down 47%. <\/p>\n<p>However, the decrease in net migration is &#8220;likely to be temporary&#8221;, the Migration Observatory said, as &#8220;lower immigration will eventually feed through into lower emigration&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: <a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#Migration #UK #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Net migration to the UK fell to 171,000 in 2025, new figures show &#8211; the lowest level since 2012, excluding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}