LONDON, ENGLAND, December 7, 2006: India’s next generation leads the world’s young, along with the Kenyans, in wanting to emigrate and secure a better future, a BBC global survey of 15 to 17-year-olds in 10 cities has found. Today’s youth also appeared to thirst for a world without borders, with four out of five respondents telling the survey people should be able to live in any country they choose.
Overall, two-thirds of 3,000 representatives of next generation in New York, Nairobi, Cairo, Lagos, Rio de Janeiro, Baghdad, Delhi, Jakarta, Moscow and London said they would happily leave their mother country and emigrate. An alarmingly high number, one in seven, said they would even risk their life to reach another country.
Indians and Kenyans led the list of potential New Age emigres with 81 per cent respectively displaying a marked desire to be world citizens rather than stay-at-home wage-earners.