Where US citizens live, move, settle beyond the United States.
Americans are moving abroad to retire, work, study, and reclaim ancestral citizenships, and their own government doesn't reliably count them. The countries they move to do. This dashboard assembles what 99 receiving governments publish: every figure from a named official source, every country graded for transparency. Click a country on the map to open its full analysis.
No US agency counts the private citizens who live abroad. The Census Bureau decided in 1976 to leave them out, and nobody has picked the job up since. So we asked the governments that do keep records, ninety-nine of them, and read every one under the same method. This dashboard is what came back.
The dashboard is in public beta: an early release we are still polishing while the public launch gets under way. During the beta, some Pro features are open to every reader, including the free CSV downloads on country pages. If something looks off, tell us; the record improves with every correction.
Five ways into the data. The Global View maps and ranks every region; Rankings compares all countries on one metric at a time; the country pages carry the full record and the research behind it; US Government Data shows what Washington itself publishes.
No single number says how many Americans live in a country. Five metrics count five different things, and the dashboard always says which one you are reading, and for which year.
Counted, not modeled. Every number here is something a government actually published: census tabulations, population registers, residence permits, naturalization records. We don't estimate or model; where a country publishes nothing, the page says so plainly instead of filling the gap.
Each country carries a confidence grade tied to its Data Visibility Index score. Low confidence means the public record is thin, not that the number is wrong.
The full series, every year, every country
The public view shows a limited year window for each series. Researchers and journalists can request access to the complete annual record for every country in the project.