40% of young women would like to leave the U.S., with Canada the top destination: poll

1 in 5 Americans say they desire to leave and move permanently to another country, a figure almost twice as high as when Gallup started asking the question in 2008

A new Gallup poll has found that in the past two years, more Americans want to leave their country than at any other time in the past two decades. And young women are more than twice as likely to want to get out than young men, with 40 per cent saying they’d like to go.

Canada remains the preferred destination for younger American women looking to leave, with 11 per cent of those since 2022 naming it as their top destination, ahead of New Zealand, Italy and Japan, all at five per cent.

The Washington, D.C. based pollster notes in its survey that the question asks about desire to migrate, so the findings reflect that rather