Washington, district of Colombia--all over the world desire to permanently migrate to another country, signs of cooling between 2007 and 2010, but hundreds of millions of adults still wish to move. Gallup finds that 14% of adults in the world--or about 630 million people--would like to migrate to another country if they have a chance, down from 16% or more than 700 million.
The latest Gallup results in adults the desire to move to other countries based on the average interview with 401.490 adults in 146 countries between 2008 and 2010. 146 Countries represent more than 93 per cent of the adult population in the world. Previous conclusions were based on the average interview with 259.542 adults in 135 countries between 2007 and 2009.
The desire to migrate has decreased mainly in developing countries, with a significant reduction in sub-Saharan Africa. Residents in this region continue to express a desire to migrate permanently, with 33% of adults say they would like to move, but this is down from 38% in the previous election likely throughout the world. Desire also disappeared in Latin America (from 23% to 20%) and in South-East Asia (from 12% to 9%) between 2007 and 2010.
However, in other locations around the world, the desire to remain relatively high. Among the inhabitants of the European Union, for example, the percentage of adults who wish to move to another country for ever remained flat at 20%. 10% of adults in North America who wish to defer also remains unchanged.
United States still top destination
Eighteen countries continue to attract more than 70% of potential migrants throughout the world. The United States continues to be the top destination for adults who wish to migrate. About 23% of the potential migrants about 145 million adults around the world--the United States as their desired future. Canada, United Kingdom, France, Spain and Australia to at least 25 million adults.
North America, which includes the United States and Canada and other countries in the European Union continues to be in the top draws at the regional level. About 188 million adults, or about 30 per cent of the total percentage of adults who wish to move around the world, wishes to move to North America. About 178 million adults would like to move to the country in the EU. Nevertheless, the EU has the highest percentage of people around the world who wanted to move there within the region. From 178 million, which would go to one of the countries of the EU, about 36 million are from within the region.
The Effects Of
Worldwide organajzinga shows that hundreds of millions still wanted to go to other countries, if they have a chance, but this desire dropped between 2007 and 2010. Decreased desire to migrate, manifests itself in some regions may be a by-product of the global economic slowdown, which could have made the idea of leaving their own country in uncertain economic times, too risky even entertain.
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Anita Pugliese and mark Carpenter provided technical assistance for the preparation of the present report.
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