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gallupqueue Our migration findings @TheEconomist: http://bit.ly/3NQr0D Original stories here: http://bit.ly/3ox8jJ http://bit.ly/4dfLBG 11 days ago |
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700 Million Worldwide Desire to Migrate - esp. to the U.S., Canada, the UK, France & Spain http://bit.ly/3u4wrz (via @rgendron) 11 days ago |
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Gallup's Potential Net Migration Index: http://tinyurl.com/ygqrdlc http://tinyurl.com/yk2q54q Fascinating! (via @Fourmilab) 15 days ago |
Polls In The News
Booker Rising —
... Gallup finds about 16% of the world's adults would like to move to another country permanently if they had the chance. This translates to roughly 700 million worldwide -- more than the entire adult population of North and South America combined. Residents of sub-Saharan African countries (38%, of an estimated 165 million) are most likely to express a desire to move abroad permanently if the opportunity arises. Residents in Asian countries are the least likely to say they would like to move -- with 10% of the adult population, or roughly 250 million, expressing a desire to ...
Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/4/2009
Gates of Vienna —
... 700 Million Worldwide Desire to Migrate Permanently Every day, immigrants leave their homelands behind for new lives in other countries. Reflecting this desire, rather than the reality of the numbers that actually migrate, Gallup finds about 16% of the world’s adults would like to move to another country permanently if they had the chance. This translates to roughly 700 million worldwide — more than the entire adult population of North and South America combined. From its surveys in 135 countries between ...
Why Do They Hate Us? (Or Maybe They Don't)
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
About 16% of the world's adult population would like to emigrate permanently: The United States is the top desired destination country for the 700
million adults who would like to relocate permanently to another
country. Nearly one-quarter (24%) of these respondents, which
translates to more than 165 million adults worldwide, name the United
States as their desired future residence. With an additional estimated
45 million saying they would like to move to Canada, Northern America
is one of the two most desired regions. ...
After the Wall
Matthew Yglesias —
... It’s interesting to reflect that it’s very much still the case that millions of people living in Ukraine and Russia and for that matter Mexico and Mozambique would love to engage in mass emigration to the West and expose the systems under which they live as corrupt and uncompetitive. Indeed, according to Gallup 700 million people would like to migrate permanently to a new country: ...
