Title: Where are Americans emigrating to and why | Aetna International
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Where are Americans emigrating to and why?
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Where are Americans emigrating to and why? What’s happening? The U.S. government doesn’t formally track how many Americans leave the U.S. but the most recent estimate puts the figure at nearly nine million. This figure represents a doubling of the 1999 figure, placed at 4.1 million. The number of expats has more than doubled in the last fifteen years — a number growing faster than the rate of the U.S. population itself. After the 2016 U.S. Presidential election many Americans said that they would leave the country, though no figures exist to show whether a significant up-tick has occurred. Where are people going? So where are these American expats going? According to the Association of American Residents Overseas (AARO), US expats can be found in more than 160 countries: