Enforced removals
People with no right to remain in the UK who are removed or deported each year.
9.9m
+21.3% vs 2024
As of 2025
Historical trend
Trend summary
The Home Office carried out 16,400 enforced and voluntary removals in 2024, the highest total since 2017.
Trend
- Removals fell from around 15,000–16,000 per year in the mid-2010s to below 10,000 in 2020–23 during and after the pandemic.
- The 2024 recovery reflects increased charter flight and scheduled departure activity.
Context
- Home Office removals statistics are published quarterly; they include enforced removals, voluntary departures, and refused entry at port.
- Returns to Albania and India have accounted for a growing share of enforced removals in recent years.
Commentary contains no editorial judgement — describes direction, magnitude, and official projections only.
About this indicator
- Source
- Home Office
- Update frequency
- Annual
- Last updated
- 22 June 2026
- Licence
- OGL v3
- Direction
- ↑ Rising
Statistics
- Latest
- 9.9m
- Period high
- 9.9m
- Period low
- 8.2m
- Period average
- 9.0m