London, May 24 -- Indian students and workers are the largest group of foreigners to have left the UK over the past year amid tightening visa and immigration policies, showed the country's latest migration statistics, released on Thursday.

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) analysis for 2024, around 37,000 Indians who came for study reasons, 18,000 for work reasons and 3,000 for other unspecified reasons led the emigration trend followed by Chinese students and workers (45,000). Nigerians (16,000), Pakistanis (12,000) and Americans (8,000) completed the top five emigrating nationalities, resulting in an overall net migration fall by 4,31,000 last year - almost half the total from the year before.

"Among people emigrat...