In message , at 09:35:46 on Sat, 11 Jan
2014, Someone Somewhere remarked:
Can't be many non-chip UK passports left now.

My passport issued in 2006 doesn't have one so that means roughly a
third will not.

Even taking into account the 5yr passports issued to minors, and those
replaced for various reasons (lost/stolen/damaged/full)?
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Roland Perry

On 11/01/2014 13:18, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 09:35:46 on Sat, 11 Jan
2014, Someone Somewhere remarked:
Can't be many non-chip UK passports left now.

My passport issued in 2006 doesn't have one so that means roughly a
third will not.

Even taking into account the 5yr passports issued to minors, and those
replaced for various reasons (lost/stolen/damaged/full)?

Yes, but also those replaced abroad would probably not have a chip in
them either until much later so it probably evens out.

In my case the replacement was to get a machine readable passport as my
previous one issued in 2000 in Budapest due to damage was not.

Anyway, even if it's only a quarter or a fifth then that's still a
substantial number of passports and larger than "can't be many"

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 09:35:46 on Sat, 11 Jan
2014, Someone Somewhere remarked:
Can't be many non-chip UK passports left now.

My passport issued in 2006 doesn't have one so that means roughly a third
will not.

Even taking into account the 5yr passports issued to minors, and those
replaced for various reasons (lost/stolen/damaged/full)?

and the fairly reasonable statistic that the newer a passport is, the more
likely it is to be used.

(I wonder how skewed that really is. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find
that it is very significant)

tim

"tim......" wrote:
"Roland Perry" wrote in message ...
In message , at 09:35:46 on Sat, 11 Jan
2014, Someone Somewhere remarked:
Can't be many non-chip UK passports left now.

My passport issued in 2006 doesn't have one so that means roughly a third will not.

Even taking into account the 5yr passports issued to minors, and those
replaced for various reasons (lost/stolen/damaged/full)?

and the fairly reasonable statistic that the newer a passport is, the
more likely it is to be used.

(I wonder how skewed that really is. I wouldn't be at all surprised to
find that it is very significant)

Yes, very likely. Older passports may be lost or damaged, or the owners
deceased or unable to travel. Frequent travellers may run out of pages for
visas in old passports, or need a new one as the old one has stamps from
countries that are very hostile to a new one to be visited. And passports
in their last year of validity are very likely to be replaced before they
run out.