Overview
- The share of women ages 15 to 44 who say they would leave the U.S. has roughly quadrupled since 2014, rising from about 10% to around 40%.
- Only about 19% of men in the same age group express the same desire, producing the widest gender gap Gallup has recorded on this question.
- Gallup reports a 25-point gap in migration desire between Americans who approve of national leadership and those who disapprove, with USA Today noting 4% among Trump approvers versus 29% among disapprovers.
- Younger women have registered the steepest drop in institutional confidence since 2015, with Gallup measuring a 17-point decline.
- The measure reflects desire rather than plans to move, and respondents most often named Canada as a preferred destination, followed by New Zealand, Italy and Japan.