Perhaps 13% of Venezuela's population have already fled—over 4m people
vote with their feet, they usually make an informed choice. Venezuelans, for example, have many compelling reasons to leave Venezuela. Its government admits that it killed 5,287 people last year for “resistance to authority”, inflation has reached as high as 2,700,000% and by early 2018 the average person had lost 11kg from hunger. Perhaps 13% of the population have fled—over 4m people.
Venezuela and Central America are uniquely troubled. However, their citizens’ desire to get out is increasingly common. Gallup, a pollster, asks people in 120 countries each year if they want to emigrate. From 2010 to 2018 the share that said “yes” rose in 15 of the 19 Latin American nations it tracks. In 2010, 19% of people in the region hoped to move abroad permanently, the same as in Europe. Now 31% do, as many as in the Middle East and Africa.
In countries where crime has not risen, economic doldrums have been the main driver of discontent. In 2010 Latin America’sgrew by 6%, well above the global average. By 2016 it was shrinking, due to recessions in Brazil and Argentina—the latter of which imposed capital controls this week . In Mexico, the region’s second-biggest country, the economy has plodded along with low productivity growth and little social mobility.
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