The Gallup Poll stated it was a threefold increase from five years ago.
A record number of Russians want to leave their country, according to statistics that will alarm the Kremlin. The poll by Gallup shows that 20 percent of Russians say they would leave Russia if they could—a threefold increase from five years ago and surpassing the previous record set in 2007, when 17 percent of Russians said they wanted to leave.
The desire to emigrate has been growing over the last five years, when only 7 percent of respondents said they wanted to leave. Back in 2014, there had been a surge of patriotism due to the Winter Olympics in Sochi and the illegal annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.
The United Nations had warned of a demographic crisis in Russia, predicting it would lose 8 percent of its population by 2050, which could be even larger if there is widespread emigration. The newspaper Kommersant reported how the Kremlin was keen to make up the shortfall in numbers by attracting Russian speakers from Kazakhstan, Ukraine and the Caucasus. However, this poses a risk of fomenting ethnic tensions.
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