The flaw in this line of argument is that if all the students went home and weren't replaced we should have probably seen net emigration during the pandemic. (Spolier - we didn't). (View Post)
And how many leave? If the numbers leaving don't track closely to the numbers arriving (with a bit of lag) then either we have a mysterious plague killing foreign students or a lot of them are just h… (View Post)
A thought experiment, a little broad brush. Imagine we had zero net immigration, which at the moment means the total population would be pretty much static. Currently we have around 2.7 million peopl… (View Post)