In 2021, Gallup did a massive survey of 127,000 adults in 122 countries, inquiring about their interest in leaving their home countries. The results are little short of breathtaking. Of those surveyed from around the world, fully 16 percent said they would like to leave the country they were currently living in. Extrapolated to the estimated world population–about 7.8 billion–that comes out to 900 million people, more than two and a half times the entire population of the United States.
Where do they want to go? About 18 percent–or 160 million–named the U.S. as their destination of first choice, far more than Canada, which was named first choice by only 8 percent.
The populace of some countries wanted out in a big way. Fully 76 percent of the residents of Sierra Leone, for example, wanted to emigrate. Thirty-seven percent of those living in Latin America and the Caribbean wanted to leave, as did 37 percent of Sub-Sahara Africa.
It isn’t hard to see what these numbers foretell, especially in the open-borders days being enjoyed by our current national regime. When 16 percent of 9.8 billion people want to leave and a hefty percentage of them want to come your way, it’s past time to worry.
For more, see Gallup.