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American emigration, measured strictly from what governments publish.
Half a million Americans leave the United States in a typical year, yet no public source tracks how many Americans live abroad or where they go. The American Emigration Revue gathers the figures each government actually publishes (censuses, residence permits, naturalizations, visitor visas) into one comparable view of Americans living abroad. We don't estimate. We don't model. Where the data exists, we publish it. Where it doesn't, we say so.
Which countries publish the clearest view of their American population?
Every country is scored from 0 to 5 on how openly it reports the Americans living there. This year Denmark and Sweden lead at a perfect 5, with a cluster just behind.
Americans Buy Caribbean Citizenship by Investment and Vanish From the Data
Five CARICOM states operate citizenship-by-investment programs whose grants include free movement across the region. U.S. nationals are plausibly the largest single applicant group, yet they appear in neither set of records: not in destination-country resident tallies, not in U.S. emigration data.
US Emigration to Europe Split 4 Ways in the Eurostat Decade
Eurostat is the only destination-country statistical system that publishes harmonized, country-disaggregated migration data on U.S. nationals. The decade ending in 2025 reveals four overlapping American stories in Europe that pull in different directions.
Gulf States Count Their Americans but Won't Publish the Number
Gulf Cooperation Council states track foreign nationals by nationality for visa management and security purposes but publish almost none of the resulting data. The U.S. resident population across the GCC, plausibly between 50,000 and 80,000 people, represents the clearest example of administrative capacity that does not translate into public disclosure.
Americans Moving to Spain Target Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia
Americans moving to Spain have made it one of the top destinations for U.S. expatriates, with Madrid, Barcelona, and Valencia drawing the biggest share of new arrivals. More than 50,000 U.S. expats are currently living in Spain, a figure that has only continued to rise. In fact, in the last two years, the number of […]
Everyone sees it happening.
No one is documenting it.
Coverage of Americans living abroad still comes in fragments, one country at a time, an anecdote, an estimate nobody can source. AER was built to document the whole of it, tracking how American emigration actually moves: who leaves, where they land, whether they stay, whether they claim a second citizenship.