EU migrants in UK outstrip number from Caribbean

There are now more migrants hailing from the EU in the UK than there are from the Caribbean, according to the latest figures.

Some of the traditional communities from other countries residing in Britain have been overtaken by the large number of migrants from the continents, revealed the Office of National Statistics (ONS). One of the nations that has long since been high up in terms of having the biggest foreign-born population, Jamaica, is no longer in the top 10.

In a further showing of how the population from foreign countries in growing, there are now more Polish-born people in the UK than Irish, while the Indian population has increased two-fold in the past decade.

In the 1950s and 1960s, many of the UK’s foreign arrivals came from Caribbean nations, but none of these countries are now present in the top 10. Between 2004 and 2013 there was a rise of just 13,000 Jamaicans, with the total of 152,000 living in the country putting the island nation in 11th spot.

Other Caribbean countries, such as Guyana and Barbados, are now outside the top 60, while Trinidad and Tobago is 59th.