Overview
- The summer 2025 survey reports 40% of U.S. women ages 15–44 would like to move permanently to another country.
- Only 19% of young men say the same, the largest gender gap Gallup has recorded and an outlier in its global data since 2007.
- The share rose decisively in 2016, reached 44% in President Biden’s final year, and remains elevated this year, indicating a sustained shift.
- Gallup links the pattern to partisan alignment and declining institutional trust, with confidence in the courts falling after the 2022 Dobbs decision.
- The rise spans marital status, with 41% of married and 45% of unmarried young women expressing this view, while about one in five U.S. adults overall say they want to leave.