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'Quiet Quitting From America'—40% Of Women Aged 15 To 44 Say They Would Move Abroad Permanently If Given The Chance
For the second year in a row, about one in five Americans say they would leave the U.S. for good if they could.
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For the second year in a row, about one in five Americans say they would leave the U.S. for good if they could.
But that average hides something much bigger happening with one specific group: younger women. According to new Gallup data, a staggering 40% of American women aged 15 to 44 say they would permanently move to another country if they had the opportunity.
As political commentator Kyle Kulinski put it, “That’s like quiet quitting from America. And you can’t blame them.”
That figure has quadrupled since 2014, when only 10% said the same. It’s also 21 points higher than the number of younger men who feel that way.
By comparison, only 14% of women aged 45 and older say they want to leave the country, a stark difference that underscores just how concentrated this shift is among younger women.
Gallup says this is the biggest gender gap it’s ever recorded on migration desire, not just in the U.S., but anywhere in the world since they began tracking this question in 2007. No other developed country has seen anything close.
So what’s behind this wave of discontent? A mix of politics, declining trust in institutions, and a deep sense that the American system just isn’t working anymore.
Kulinski specifically blamed Republicans for this potential outflow, accusing them of cutting the social safety net, gutting healthcare and food programs, and pushing policies that alienate younger generations, especially women.
He argued that these actions have made the country increasingly unlivable for many young people.
A Shift Years in the Making
The rise in younger women’s desire to leave didn’t happen overnight. It started in 2016 and has stayed elevated through both the Trump and Biden presidencies. The number hit 44% in 2024 and remains near that level in 2025.Gallup says this suggests a broader mindset shift rather than just a response to one political party.
Political identity plays a role, though. As of 2025, 59% of women aged 18 to 44 identify as or lean Democratic, compared with just 39% of men in the same age range.
Younger women are also far more likely to disapprove of current U.S. leadership.
Gallup found a 25-point gap in migration desire between those who approve and those who disapprove of the country’s leadership.
“It just feels like we’re marching towards oblivion,” said Kulinski on his show.
He pointed out that nearly half of young women are ready to walk away from the country entirely. “That’s a crisis. That is a crisis. And nobody’s talking about it.”
Faith in Institutions Has Cratered
Another big reason younger women are eyeing the exit: they’ve lost trust in American institutions.In 2015, Gallup’s National Institutions Index showed women aged 15 to 44 scoring 57 out of 100 in confidence across the government, military, courts and elections.
That score has dropped 17 points since then, the sharpest drop of any demographic.
Confidence in the judicial system, in particular, plunged after the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
Support among younger women dropped from 55% in 2015 to just 32% in 2025. Still, Gallup notes that the desire to leave had already been rising years before that ruling.
Meanwhile, the institutional confidence score among women aged 45 and older has remained broadly stable, and among older men, it has actually increased by 15 points over the same time period, another indicator of how sharply younger women are diverging.
Marriage and Kids Aren’t Stopping Them
The desire to leave spans across relationship status.Gallup found that 45% of single younger women and 41% of married younger women want to move abroad permanently.
Even having children at home doesn’t seem to make a big difference. Among those with kids, 40% still say they’d go.
That means many women aren’t just imagining a new life for themselves; they’re picturing a future for their children somewhere else.
The Top Destination? Canada
When asked where they’d go, younger American women consistently name Canada as their No. 1 choice, followed by New Zealand, Italy, and Japan. These preferences have stayed steady since 2022.This makes the U.S. an outlier compared to other developed countries.
Among the 38 nations in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the percentage of younger women wanting to migrate has held relatively steady between 20% and 30%.
In contrast, younger U.S. women are now far more likely to want out than even their global peers.
Why it Matters
Kulinski framed the trend as a kind of generational break-up.He also warned about what happens next if this trend continues unchecked: a future where the U.S. becomes more isolated, more male-dominated, and less educated.
“It might be time to just abandon ship,” Kulinski said. “It might be time to just try to get the hell out of Dodge and try to build a better life in a place..I mean, have friends who did leave, these aren’t even people who were like left-leaning, but they ended up leaving.”
He added, “You want to talk about demographics? How about the demographics of the future just being absolutely obliterated because all the women left.”
And it’s not just about people wanting to leave, it’s also about who doesn’t want to come. The U.S. has seen sharp declines in international students and researchers in recent years, and a less welcoming stance toward immigration overall.
Gallup clarifies that wanting to move isn’t the same as planning to. Most people who say they want to leave won’t actually do it.
But the sheer size of the shift matters. Tens of millions of American women are now seriously imagining life outside the country.
And that, in itself, is a powerful message about how they feel living in it.