2.5 Million Residents in England and Wales Were Born Outside the UK in Past Decade: ONS

Immigration and border control signs in the United Kingdom, in an undated file photo. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the number of England and Wales residents born outside of the UK has increased by 2.5 million in the decade since the last census in 2011.

Figures released on Wednesday also showed that the number of people who listed Romania as their country of birth grew by 576 percent since the previous census, from 80,000 in 2011 to 539,000 in 2021.