EU mass migration by the numbers

More than 5.7 million people have moved to the UK since 2005 – equivalent to 66% of the population of London, Europe’s largest city. Only Germany received more migrants over a decade-long period

People who migrated to UK in 2014 641,000*

Increase from 526,000 migrants in 2013 22% 

Illegal immigrants believed to be in UK 417,000

Asylum applications pending in UK  29,400

Rest of EU 378,000 to1,056,000
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Estimates of illegal immigrants in EU† (2008)

GREECE
172,000 to 209,000

FRANCE
178,000 to 400,000

GERMANY
196,000 to 457,000

ITALY
279,000 to 461,000

SPAIN
280,000 to 354,000
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34 million migrants to EU over past decade‡ (2004-13)

5.5m 4.1m 6.0m 2.5m 227,200 10.1m
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3.4 million migrants in most recent year (2013)

280,772 307,454 692,713 332,640 47,058 1.2m
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Asylum applications pending (May 2015)

11,020 49,410 288,070 36,960 29,780 81,300
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*Office for National Statistics. †Clandestino research project for EU (2007-09). ‡Eurostat
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