Immigrants are cleverer than us.
UK natives with a university degree: 24%.
European immigrants with a university degree: 35%.
Non-European immigrants with a university degree: 41%
University College, London. Nov 2014
(2011 data)
Immigration reduces the costs that natives bear for fixed public goods, like national defence.
The savings from sharing the fiscal burden of public goods (like defence) across a larger population rose from £3.4 billion in 1995 to £12 billion in 2011.
The cumulative total for 1995 – 2011 is £82 billion.
University College, London. Nov 2014
From 2001 to 2011, immigrants from the EU-15 countries contributed 64% more in taxes than they received in benefits.
University College, London. Nov 2014
Immigration Facts #2
The value of the education of immigrants in the UK labour market who arrived since 2000 and that has been paid for in the immigrants’ origin countries amounts to £6.8bn over the period between 2000 and 2011.
University College, London Nov 2014
