The number of UK citizens who emigrated to other countries of the European Union grew by 30 percent after the Brexit referendum, according to an analysis from the Berlin Center for Social Sciences.
DATA SHOWS COUNTRY MAY BE HIT BY A MAJOR ECONOMIC CRISIS
Cited by UK’s The Guardian, the number of Brits living in other EU countries who have decided to obtain other EU member state passports in addition to their UK ones has increased by more than 500 percent.
According to the analysis, on average 73.642 British citizens left the UK for other EU countries between 2016 and 2018, when between 2008 and 2015 only 56.832 citizens left.
“These increases in numbers are of a magnitude that you would expect when a country is hit by a major economic or political crisis,” said Daniel Auer, co-author of the study by Oxford University in Berlin and the Berlin Social Science Center.