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Henry Lau @henrylau.co.uk · 21/05/2026

We've also updated our life expectancy calculator recently. Give it a try! www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

ONS life expectancy calculator screenshot where you can put your age and sex and it returns your average life expectancy and change of reaching state pension age, 90 or 100.

Henry Lau @henrylau.co.uk · 21/05/2026

And then another graphics that also didn't make it. Here's a joyplot for UK residents in Australia. Definitely a cohort effect going on with Australia as people age and you can see the sharp increase in young people. ENDS

Joyplot showing the cohort effect of UK-born residents in Australia as they get older.

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Henry Lau @henrylau.co.uk · 21/05/2026

Back to the UN's data, the population of British people has grown fastest in some Central and Eastern European countries.

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Henry Lau @henrylau.co.uk · 21/05/2026

We can also look at the data from Spain. The population of UK-born residents is much older than the Spanish population. More British people aged 65 and over are now leaving than arriving to live in Spain

The British population in Spain is far older than the country’s average

More British people aged 65 and over are now leaving than arriving to live in Spain

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Henry Lau @henrylau.co.uk · 21/05/2026

This didn't make the article but even more interesting is that we can look at the Australia Department of Home Affairs to look at the occupations they grant visas too. Here's the top 8 occupations with GPs and medical officers the number one. Source: www.homeaffairs.gov.au/research-and...

Stacked column chart showing the top 8 occupations of skilled visa granted to Australia, year ending June 2022 to June 2025. GPs and resident medical officers is the top occupation.

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Henry Lau @henrylau.co.uk · 21/05/2026

Of British people living in Australia the biggest change has been in the 20-29 age group

Australian population estimates show a sharp increase in young British people since 2021

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Henry Lau @henrylau.co.uk · 21/05/2026

The Australia Bureau of Statistics captures how many British migrants arrive in and leave from Australia

Net migration of Brits to Australia is climbing, with more people arriving than leaving

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Henry Lau @henrylau.co.uk · 21/05/2026

But we also compared our numbers to what other countries and organisations are saying. The UN compiles numbers counting the number of UK born citizens in different countries. Australia comes out on top

English-speaking or European countries are home to the most British people living abroad

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Henry Lau @henrylau.co.uk · 21/05/2026

For the first time we've been able to look at the age breakdown of British migrants. The gap between those leaving and arriving has grown fastest for 25- to 34-year-olds.

The gap between those leaving and arriving has grown fastest for 25- to 34-year-olds

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Henry Lau @henrylau.co.uk · 21/05/2026

Today we published an explainer looking at ONS numbers on British migrants; what we know and what we don't know. www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

Emigration of British nationals has been broadly stable recently - but remains lower than in September 2021

Estimated migration levels to and from the UK are higher after applying improved methods

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Henry Lau @henrylau.co.uk · 24/02/2025

Thanks for your input, just want to explore this a bit further. What info would you consider a secondary/lower level? Can you give an example of where they've been useful/met a need?

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Henry Lau @henrylau.co.uk · 24/02/2025

Thank you, would you say people want to just not the catagory name or the values or both? If they found out the name of the outlier how else would they use this information.

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Henry Lau @henrylau.co.uk · 21/02/2025

Any data vis people have opinions or research about the use of tooltips on charts? Do people just really like them because something is happening when they mouseover, so like a flashy distraction, or is there a user need they fulfil? @albertocairo.com @visualisingdata.com

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Henry Lau @henrylau.co.uk · 15/03/2024

🌟New project🌟 🏙️Which towns attract people with advanced education? 🎓 Our latest piece of robojournalism that looks at individual towns to see how many people with post-16 qualifications stayed in or returned to the towns they grew up in www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

Screen recording of our robo-journalism article looking at how many people with post-16 qualifications stayed in or returned to the towns they grew up in.

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