This map, published by Remitly, shows the most popular destinations for emigration in each country around the world based on the most popular Google searches.
The different colours represent the desired destination country in each location. In the same order as the legend, these are:
- Blue: Japan
- Green: Canada
- Red: Spain
- Orange: Germany
- Pink: Qatar
- Yellow: Australia
- Light blue: Portugal
- Brown: Switzerland
- Dark grey: France
- Turquoise: Greece
- Dark purple: Oman
- Dark green: United States
- Garnet: Austria
- Light green: United Kingdom
- Light pink: Netherlands
- Purple: Turkey
- Beige: South Korea
- Light grey: Denmark
- Lila: Fiji
- Light yellow: Norway
- Dark blue: Poland
- Black: No data available.
The data for 2020 shown on this map was heavily influenced by the Covid-19 pandemic, as evidenced by the fact that Google searches for changing country of residence increased by 291% between January and October of that year.
Among the most popular destinations is Canada, chosen by 30 countries, followed by Japan (13 countries), Spain (12 countries), Germany (8 countries) and Qatar (6 countries).
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