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Looking at the world through demographics. This blog covers population in the news. Accelerating demographic growth is now the main factor driving biodiversity loss, growing resource scarcity, poverty and social conflict. Over-production and over-consumption are worsening this ecological crisis. 7 billion in 2011 - 9.3 or 10.6 billion (UN high estimate) by 2050. 80 million additional people a year at current rates! Is it not time to rethink population growth?

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Net migration to UK reaches highest level for the last five years Gap between those arriving to live in the UK for 12 months and those leaving to live abroad jumped by nearly 100,000

Polish migrant workers looking for work read job adverts in a Polish shop window in west London. Photograph: Alamy

By Alan Travis - Home Affairs – The Guardian

migration to Britain has risen to its highest level for five years, fuelled by a sharp fall in the number of people going to live abroad and a resurgence in Polish migrants coming to live in the UK.

The latest quarterly figures show that net migration – the gap between those arriving to live in the UK for more than 12 months and those leaving to live abroad – jumped by nearly 100,000 in the year to September 2010, to 243,000.

The unexpected rise is a major blow to the Conservatives' pledge to reduce the number to the "tens of thousands" by the next general election in 2015.

For full article:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/may/26/net-migration-uk-immigration