The number of women who want to leave the US

More Americans say they want to move out of the United States permanently in 2025 than at nearly any time in the past two decades, with younger women leading the trend, according to a new national poll.

A Gallup survey analysis published Nov. 13 found that 2 in 5 American women and girls ages 15 to 44 say they would leave the United States permanently if they could. That's four times what it was in 2014, when the 10% of women and girls who wanted to leave the country was generally in line with other age and gender groups. The rise includes both single women and married women.

Forty-four percent of women and girls in the age range in 2024 said they would "like to move permanently to another country," according to the data. Among all respondents, 21% said the same.

This year, more than twice as many women say they want to migrate than men, Gallup pollsters said in their data review. In the same 15 to 44 age group, 19% of men and boys expressed the desire to migrate, compared with the 40% of women in the survey. This gender gap is the largest Gallup has ever recorded on this issue since they started measuring this question in global polls in 2007.

Gallup pollsters said it's also the largest gender gap they've ever seen on the question across more than 160 countries.Canada was listed as American womens' top destination preference, followed by New Zealand, Italy and Japan.Gallup’s question asks about desire to migrate, not plans or intentions, and surveyors note previous Gallup research shows not everyone who wants to move will do so.