Media denies Kremlin claims that "more than 20% of Americans want to leave the United States."

Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said on April 5 that “more than a fifth of Americans want to leave the United States,” quoted Currently,. So he commented on the data of the American sociological service Gallup, distributed the day before: it follows from them that more than 20% of Russians consider the option of leaving Russia, if they had the opportunity to do so.

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And most often think about the emigration of young people and held professionals at the age of 30-45 years.

Peskov said he considers “people’s desire to emigrate” normal, and Gallup’s data on Russians, he said, “is not a high indicator.”

“These studies are carried out by different companies in different countries of the world. This is far from the highest figure,” he said. “For example, the number of Americans who want to emigrate from America is much more than one in five.”

“Some people prefer a more active lifestyle, others a less active lifestyle,” Peskov noted and called for treating sociologists’ data “with certain tolerances.”

Peskov’s statement about the number of Americans who want to emigrate is not correct from the actual point of view. According to the same gallup, at the end of 2018, the number of US citizens intending to emigrate at the first opportunity actually reached record levels. But it still did not exceed 16% of respondents, which is much less than the “one fifth of the population” called by the Kremlin press secretary. Under Barack Obama, the share of those thinking about emigrating to the United States fluctuated around 10% of respondents, and under George Bush - 11%.

Sociologists call one of the reasons for the current emigration sentiments of US citizens in the Donald Trump presidency, which is far from being enjoyed by everyone. On average, according to immigration services, since the time Trump came to power, thousands of people left for Canada on average 2 a year more than before. But again, this figure is less than the number of Russians who are willing to emigrate from Russia because of the policies of President Vladimir Putin.

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