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And every other rich first world nation.
by evolve2k 9y ago
And every other rich first world nation.
- refurb 9y agoNuh uh. About 13% of the world's adults -- or about 630 million people -- say they would like to leave their country and move somewhere else permanently. For roughly 138 million people, that somewhere else would be the U.S. -- the No. 1 desired destination for potential migrants. The U.K. is a distant second at ~40M.[1] [1]http://news.gallup.com/poll/161435/100-million-worldwide-dream-life.aspx http://news.gallup.com/poll/161435/100-million-worldwide-dre...
- rahkiin 9y agoThat is an article from 2013. Would anything have changed since, say, 20th of january 2017?
- refurb 9y agoMaybe the number got bigger? We don't have data so who knows?
- orf 9y agoAwesome, the country that built itself on the idea of being open to all the masses no matter their origin, attracts the masses. Who would have thought.
- TheSpiceIsLife 9y agoIt doesn't even though. 78% of people who want to move, want to move somewhere other than the USA.
- adventured 9y agoThe US is a mere 4.x% of the world's population. The fact that 22% of those people want to move to the US, is extraordinary.
- TheSpiceIsLife 9y agoI mean, if we shred the numbers a particular way we get this result: Australia has a population of 24.6 million and that table[1] says 26 million people want to move there. That's 105%. Where as the USA has a population of 325 million but only 138 million want to move there. That's only 42%. If Australia had the population of the USA the number should be 341 million, all else being equal. 1. http://news.gallup.com/poll/161435/100-million-worldwide-dream-life.aspx http://news.gallup.com/poll/161435/100-million-worldwide-dre...
- Clubber 9y agoThat hasn't been true since the Civil War. https://cis.org/Historical-Overview-Immigration-Policy https://cis.org/Historical-Overview-Immigration-Policy https://www.uscis.gov/history-and-genealogy/our-history/agency-history/early-american-immigration-policies https://www.uscis.gov/history-and-genealogy/our-history/agen... https://fairus.org/legislation/reports-and-analysis/history-of-us-immigration-laws https://fairus.org/legislation/reports-and-analysis/history-...
- TheSpiceIsLife 9y agoBy your numbers, of the 630 million adults who say they would like to leave their country and move somewhere else 78% desire to move to not-the-USA.