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Americans appear to be leaving the U.S. at once-in-a-century levels, fleeing divisive politics and a cost of living crisis.

In 2025, the flow of Americans ditching the 50 states for good caused the first estimated net outward migration of the U.S. population in decades, something that likely hasn’t happened since the 1929 Great Depression.

Previously, the Americans leaving were super-adventurous and well-credentialed,” Jen Barnett, founder of the resettlement consultancy firm Expatsi, told The Wall Street Journal. “Now they’re ordinary people, like me.”

In 2024, Barnett joined in the trend, relocating to Yucatán, Mexico.

The U.S. government doesn’t officially track the number of Americans who’ve resettled abroad, so estimates of just how many people left can vary

In 2025, net outward migration was between negative 10,000 and negative 295,000 people, Brookings estimates, forecasting a similar negative trend for 2026.

Others have pegged the outflow at around 150,000 people in 2025.

Before 2009, a typical year saw 200 to 400 people renounce their citizenship. By 2025, that figure was nearing 5,000, with more renunciations expected this year because fees to do so have dropped steeply

Nearly all of the European Union’s 27 member states have seen record levels of Americans arriving to live and work there in recent years, a Wall Street Journal analysis found.

Outside of Europe, Mexico is another popular destination.

Approximately 1.6 million Americans live there, the State Department estimates, the largest overall concentration of American expats in the world.

Even more people are considering making the change.

A November 2025 Gallup poll found that one in five Americans would like to permanently move, double the figure from ten years earlier.

A variety of factors are driving the trend, according to the data, including political disagreements and affordability issues. Further, “golden visas” for foreign investors, remote work, and incentives for digital nomads all have opened new pathways for leaving the U.S.

For the better part of two centuries, the story of American migration ran in a single direction: inward,” Global Citizen Solutions, a citizenship advisory firm, wrote in a recent report on the trend. “The United States was the gravitational center of global human movement, the place people came to, not the place people left. That narrative is shifting.”

According to a February 2025 Harris poll, 68 percent of Americans considering leaving the U.S. cited unattainable home ownership and a sense they were “merely surviving instead of thriving.”

Meanwhile, 49 percent cited high living expenses and disagreements with the political situation in the U.S

Within the U.S., another migration is underway, as high-cost states like California and Hawaii have lost population in recent years.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/americans-leaving-citizenship-emigration-trump-b2975395.html

Donald trump has messed up this great country, Americans are now queuing at other embassies for Greener pasture

They are better off findin their way to gaza and other sharia countries where there is discipline and moral order.

zeuss:
They are better off find their way to gaza and other sharia countries where there is discipline and moral order.

Or to Norway and Sweden and Thailand.

Liesss! This is story is as fake as a plastic fruit. Big fat lie!

Good. More space for me and my future family.

pato405:
Liesss! This is story is as fake as a plastic fruit. Big fat lie!

You're in America?

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God1000:
Donald trump has messed up this great country, Americans are now queuing at other embassies for Greener pasture

A little secret, people migrate, not just Nigerians, and not because their country is bad or awful.

A lot of Americans migrate to thailand and mexico. Not because both countries are strong, or better, but because the relative strength of the dollar means they can live like kings there.

It is only in Nigeria that we think that japa must be for economic purposes...or that it is because country bad and no anemites.

lol. There are things you shouldn’t believe online

Abeg make dem renounce make I go collect their spot

Btw this is fake news. Americans love for their country is unmatched

Even TINUBU and his family and Government officials wish to relocate to this same America.

Rest with your UK propaganda merchants. Has UK told you that their economy has TANKED and that they will start deporting and revoking issued stays because of rising poverty?

USA under TRUMP is 500000000000000000% better than a glorified slum, ful of insecurity and crime like Nigeria .

Which abroad?

Are they japaing into Nigeria?🫣

Ferd04:
They should better stay

Depends. Having a strong currency can be good, but it can also mean higher costs of living.

A lot of Americans move overseas because their currency is strong enough to enable them afford the good life there that they cannot afford at the USA.

I don't know about others, all I know is that this America will favour me and my family.

Very good. When the time comes others will replace them

Ezeama400:
lol. There are things you shouldn’t believe online

Be deceiving yourself.

This is something I was telling my friends this time last year.

Those people probably have dual citizenship
America is the one of the world's most privileged countries. They are welcome to Nigeria if they have plenty of USD to spend

If you understand what it means that your GDP is $30 trillion when your population is just a little over 300 million, you don't know how privileged you are.

Flangelo12:
Be deceiving yourself.

This is something I was telling my friends this time last year.

Millions are looking for a way to enter US..

Stop deceiving yourself .. Those leaving are replaceable if its true, but it’s a lie

We that live in America no dey go anywhere ooo

If only the citizenship is transferable.

These ones would have made some bucks .

One man's meat is another man's poison

Israeli and American supporters from nigeria can go there. Siks! Even if na only one American dey America they won't still give you visa. Shameless supporters 😆

esnbrutality:
Even TINUBU and his family and Government officials wish to relocate to this same America.

Rest with your UK propaganda merchants. Had UK told you that their economy has TANKED and that they will start deporting and revoking issued stays because of rising poverty?

USA under TRUMP is 500000000000000000% better than a glorified slum, ful of insecurity and crime like Nigeria .

So, why are Americans going to Mexico, Thailand and even Vietnam and other 'underdeveloped countries'

USA is a better country, and many want to go there...but to pay for the better things in that country they pay high taxes, pay high costs and so forth.

LIke now, USA has a world class health care system. Yet, the cost of healthcare is as a result very high because that is the only way they can pay for it. Meanwhile, an American can get the same level of care in Mexico at a 'cheaper rate' to them (but for a mexican it would be expensive)..so they move down south.

Nigeria needs to improve, but you guys vote for people like tinubu and obi and buhari, and gej and obasanjo and gowon and ojukwu, not people like MIlliei, LKY and so forth, who will tell you the truth about your economy and how to fix it.

They should relocate to Nigeria, so that i can take their place in America

Speed Darlington, Akpi. Has immigrated to Nigeria

Speed Darlington, Akpi. Has immigrated to Nigeria too

Ezeama400:
Millions are looking for a way to enter US..

Stop deceiving yourself .. Those leaving are replaceable if its true, but it’s a lie

So, this report is sponsored by who?

SmartPolician:
Those people probably have dual citizenship
America is the one of the world's most privileged countries. They are welcome to Nigeria if they have plenty of USD to spend

If you understand what it means that your GDP is $30 trillion when your population is just a little over 300 million, you don't know how privileged you are.

If you know, you know. Make dem come naija come experience life small , nobody go tell them to japa.

It's not new, people migrate from one part of the world to another

God1000:
Donald trump has messed up this great country, Americans are now queuing at other embassies for Greener pasture

leave trump and america....focus on Nigeria....has ur leaders done better than Trump?

pato405:
Liesss! This is story is as fake as a plastic fruit. Big fat lie!

Huge Liessssssssssssss
Huge Liessssssssssssss
Meanwhile, Guys who got into the country long ago are still hustling everyday for GreenCard. Since it's very terrible why not leave.