Timsup2nothin
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Apparently they couldn't find anyone in Greenland to ask if they wanted to leave.
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.
The rest of the top desired destination countries (those where an estimated 25 million or more adults would like to go) are predominantly European. Forty-five million adults who would like to move name the United Kingdom or France as their desired destination, while 35 million would like to go to Spain and 25 million would like to relocate to Germany. Thirty million name Saudi Arabia and 25 million name Australia.
Roughly 210 million adults around the world would like to move to a country in the European Union, which is similar to the estimated number who would like to move to Northern America. However, about half of the estimated 80 million adults who live in the EU and would like to move permanently to another country would like to move to another country within the EU -- the highest desired intra-regional migration rate in the world.
Results are based on aggregated telephone and face-to-face interviews with 259,542 adults, aged 15 and older, in 135 countries from 2007 to 2009. The 135 countries surveyed represent 93% of the world's adult population.
For most countries, aggregated sample sizes (across three years of surveys) range between 1,000 and 3,000 interviews. One can say with 95% confidence that the country-level margin of sampling error, accounting for weighting and sample design, ranges from ±3 percentage points to ±6 percentage points. Results are projected to the total population of each country aged 15 and older, using 2008 World Bank population estimates.
Spoiler :At least 700 million people worldwide - a minimum of 10% of entire population - would like to permanently emigrate from their countries:
Almost 4 out of 10 of all Sub-Saharan Africans would like to emigrate from Sub-Saharan Africa somewhere else:
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"If everyone in the world could land in his country of choice tomorrow, Singapore's population would rise by 219%. Zimbabwe's would fall by 47%."
The top 20 destinations, according to this measure:
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Sources:
"The World’s Potential Migrants
Who They Are, Where They Want to Go, and Why It Matters":
http://www.imi.ox.ac.uk/pdfs/the-worlds-potential-migrants
"700 Million Worldwide Desire to Migrate Permanently
U.S. tops desired destination countries":
http://www.gallup.com/poll/124028/700-million-worldwide-desire-migrate-permanently.aspx
"Africans in Calais: Protesting for the right to be taken in by their old colonial rulers":
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