Tuesday 7 February 2017

Thursday 2 February 2017







I noticed that Ireland (EU) is omitted from the figures relating to the population of British citizens in the EU, thus when we read:

6.1. It is estimated that around 1 million UK nationals are long-term
residents of other EU countries, including around 300,000 in Spain. France and Germany also host large numbers of British citizens.

and then look at the following chart

Population of British citizens resident in the EU, 2011(sic)

Only a footnote to this chart reveals that it "Excludes Republic of Ireland and Luxembourg" but why should it exclude Ireland as the data is available?

And this makes the chart wholly misleading as Ireland has some 287,600 British citizens, and is second in size only to Spain. Why is Ireland excluded like this? Fact is there are more British citizens in Ireland than in France and Germany combined.

The United Nations estimates “1.22 million British people live in the European Union” their figure is from (2015) this White Paper figure is from 2011!


Country of residenceTotalUnder 15 years15 to 29 years30 to 49 years50 to 64 years65 years and over
All EU members1,138,965121,886127,364392,853291,773205,078
Spain296,22015,76522,05570,83591,49596,070
Ireland287,60030,82049,241123,79755,51728,225
France169,94518,61716,74545,99954,62833,956
Germany80,2906,6409,00029,51026,0609,090