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<p>The number of regular Armed Forces personnel as at 1 April 2018 who report a country
of birth that is a non-UK EU country is 4,660. This represents 3.4% of the regular
Armed Forces who have a known country of birth.</p><p>The number of regular Armed
Forces personnel as at 1 April 2018 who report a country of birth that is a non-UK
Commonwealth country is 8,330. This represents 6.0% of the regular Armed Forces who
have a known country of birth. These figures include personnel with a country of birth
of Malta and Cyprus, these personnel are also contained in the figures in part (a)
of this response (Hence the figures in parts (a), (b) and (c) cannot be added to give
the non-UK total). Personnel reporting The Gambia and Zimbabwe as their country of
birth are included in these figures.</p><p>The number of regular Armed Forces personnel
as at 1 April 2018 who report a country of birth that is a non-UK, EU or Commonwealth
country is 2,890. This represents 2.1% of the regular Armed Forces.</p><p>Country
of birth has a 94.9% declaration rate on the Armed Forces administration system with
7,450 personnel with an unknown country of birth. Non-UK refers to personnel who do
not report a country of birth that is either the United Kingdom, any British Overseas
Territory or Crown dependency.</p><p>Although the country of birth may be non UK or
Commonwealth, personnel must hold a British or Commonwealth nationality to join the
Armed Forces.</p><p>Figures in this response have been rounded to the nearest 10.</p><p>For
the Ministry of Defence's (MOD) civil servants, the civilian administration system
does not make it mandatory to record their place of birth. Around 25% of MOD civilians
have declared their place of birth on the system, which is not a high enough figure
to provide a meaningful analysis.</p>
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