New record figure!
More than 900 million people want to leave their home country
According to a survey by the Gallup polling institute, more than 900 million people would emigrate from their home countries if only they could.
Specifically, 16 percent of adults worldwide showed a desire to emigrate. According to Gallup, the figures have risen continuously in almost all regions of the world since 2011. Sub-Saharan Africa recorded particularly high figures. While 29 percent of respondents wanted to emigrate in 2011, this figure has now risen to 37 percent. With a good three out of four adults (76%), the desire was highest in Liberia in West Africa. Its direct neighbor Sierra Leone was close behind with 75 percent.
Latin America and the Caribbean have seen an increase of ten percent to 28 percent within twelve years. In first place is the island state of Honduras, where one in two people expressed this wish. Ecuador is in second place (49 percent).
USA remains top destination country
The figures for Europe have remained the same. Here, one fifth still no longer want to live in their home country. In the successor states of the former Soviet Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States, the figure has fallen from 15 to 13 percent.
The USA remains at the top of the list of destination countries. However, the popularity of the United States has fallen from 22 to 18 percent.
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