Gallup – NZ second in world as preferred place to emmigrate to

Sometimes our fragile Kiwi egos get overly hung up on our immigration loss.

What we forget is that NZ is still a sh!t hot place to live and many people around the world would give an arm and leg for the right to reside here.

In Gallup’s latest Potential Net Migration Index (PNMI), NZ ranks second to Singapore as a migration destination. Ego boost – Australia is 6th. Rounding out the top seven are: Saudi Arabia, Canada, Switzerland and Kuwait.

According to the PNMI, if all adults worldwide who wantedto migrate permanently to other countries actually moved where they wanted to today, these top-PNMI countries would see their adult populations double or even triple. The index reflects people’s wishes rather than their intentions.

The PNMI score is the estimated on the number of adults who would like to move permanently out of a country if the opportunity arose, subtracted from the estimated number who would like to move into it, as a proportion of the total adult population.

The higher the resulting positive PNMI value, the larger the potential net adult population gain.

The top rankings are:
• Singapore: +219%
• New Zealand: +184%
• Saudi Arabia: +176%

The last one is a bit weird, but the survey only included Arab nationals and expatriates.

BTW – BigCake supports increased immigration to NZ.

Countries of course have negative PNMIs – countries that could potentially lose as much as half of their adult populations to migration. These include Liberia, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Haiti, and Sierra Leone at the bottom of the list.

Hat tip – Richard Florida