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mid-year
+ Population
at beginning
of period 000
1.
13, THE EFFECTS OF MIGRATION MOVEMENTS INTO AND OUT OF THE UK
The effects of population movements into and out of the
country since the war are shown in the following table:
POPULATION AND NET MIGRATION:
Period (mid-year to
GREAT BRITAIN: 1946-1978
Net annual migration during period
000
(Net outward flow
shown by "-"; net inward by "+")
1946-51
47,867
38
1951-56
49,176
-.35
: 1956-61
50,004.
+ 43
1961-66
51,380
1
1966-71
53,025
50
1971-72
54,071
-32
1972-73
54,236
+
8*
1973-74
54,366
• 67
1974-75
54,376
63
!
+
1975-76
54,363
14
1976-77
54,347
16
1.
1977-78
54,315
22
1978-79
54,283
This period characterised by large-scale West Indian and Asian immigration.
This figure affected by arrival of Ugandan Asians Source: OPCS; Population Trends, Spring 1979.
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