The Brief

The number of women who said they wished they could leave the United States and live in another country has increased, according to a recent Gallup poll.

In 2025, about 40% of women aged 15 to 44 said they would move abroad permanently if given the opportunity. That’s four times more than the 10% who shared this same desire in 2014.

Why do US women want to leave?

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Though the number of Americans overall who want to leave the U.S. to live in another country is one in five, and steadily increasing, women far outpace that overall number as well as the number of their male counterparts.

By contrast, 19% of the young women's male counterparts said they would like to leave the U.S. for good, marking what Gallup said was the widest gap it had recorded in this trend. G

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