News: The United Kingdom attracts intra-EU migrants of all nationalities. The United Kingdom is the second most popular destination for intra-European migrants after Germany, with a « stock » of 2.7 million migrants in 2013 (4.2% of its population), compared with 4.1 million for Germany and 2.1 million for France. Net immigration from the UK to other European countries is only positive in the case of Spain. The number of British nationals living in Spain, net of Spanish nationals living in the UK, was nearly 300,000 in 2013. This represents 0.5% of the British population.
Sources: World Bank, BSI Economics
The net number of migrants from France to the UK is one of the highest among the 28 EU countries. The number of French nationals (or rather the number of French nationals born in France) living in the UK, net of British nationals living in France, was 140,000 in 2013. However, Poles are the main migrants to the United Kingdom (a net migrant stock of 620,000 people, see map below), ahead of Germany and France.
Number of net intra-European migrants to the United Kingdom, 2013
Sources: World Bank, BSI Economics
Nevertheless, the French are by far the biggest net beneficiaries of income transfers made by expatriates between the United Kingdom and France (+€1.5 billion in 2015, see map below). As a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), this represents only 0.06% of France’s GDP, compared with nearly half a percentage point for the main Eastern European countries (up to 1% of Latvia’s GDP comes from income sent by Latvian migrants working in the United Kingdom).
Income sent in 2015 by European migrants living in the United Kingdom to their countries of origin
Sources: World Bank, BSI Economics
Overall, 0.1% of France’s GDP comes from net income sent by its expatriates living in Europe, mainly in the United Kingdom, while, net of income received from other EU countries, 0.25% of UK GDP is sent back to other European countries.
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