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by fshbbdssbbgdd 1650 days ago
This is something we can actually measure with polling.

750 million people worldwide wanted to migrate as of 2017: https://news.gallup.com/poll/245255/750-million-worldwide-mi...

Of those, the US is the most frequent top preferred destination, at 21% or 158 million.

Gallup also publishes a Potential Net Migration Index for each country, which finds that net 17% of Taiwan would like to leave, including 25% of the youth. This data is from 2015-2017.