FIGURES PUBLISHED BY the Department of the Taoiseach have revealed a very obvious pattern when it comes to Irish people taking the well-worn path to the UK to live and work.
Minister of State Paul Kehoe provided the most recent estimates of the number of emigrants to Britain from Ireland since 1987 to TD Joanna Tuffy in a written Dáil answer earlier this week.
The data showed how emigration increased drastically during the tough economic conditions of the late 1980s before dipping in the 1990s and falling significantly in the new millenium.
Over the past three years, the numbers have started to jump again on account of the recession.
1987 – 21,800
1988 – 40,200
1989 – 48,400
1990 – 35,800
1991 – 23,000
1992 – 16,900
1993 – 16,400
1994 – 14,800
1995 – 13,300
1996 – 14,100
1997 – 11,600
1998 – 11,800
1999 – 11,200
2000 – 7,200
2001 – 7,800
2002 – 7,400
2003 – 8,600
2004 – 7,100
2005 – 7,900
2006 – 8,800
2007 – 10,100
2008 – 7,000
2009 – 11,900
2010 – 14,400
2011 – 18,900
These figures may change slightly as more detailed results become available through Census of 2011 information. That data will be published in September.
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