Record Number of Russians Want to Emigrate
In Gallup’s 2018 poll, 20 percent of Russian respondents said they would like to leave Russia if they could.
The share of Russians seeking to move permanently to another country had never passed Gallup’s 17-percent high in 2007, the U.S. pollster’s results say.
However, this number has grown steadily over the past five years, tripling from 7 percent in 2014 to 20 percent in 2018.
An “unprecedented” 44 percent of young Russians between ages 15 and 29 voiced the desire to leave.
Russian respondents named Germany or the United States as their most-desired destinations at 15 and 12 percent respectively.
Japan, Canada and Spain shared the third spot, with 5 percent of hopeful immigrants each.
Gallup conducted the survey among 2,000 Russian respondents between June and October 2018.
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