Outmigration

Common synonyms include: decamping, depopulating, depopulations, emigrating, emigration, emigrations.

noun

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Definitions

Noun

1
Synonym of emigration. countable, uncountable
"The outmigration of young people has left the state with the second-highest proportion of people over 65 in the country, after Florida."

"Drought, poverty, and unemployment have driven outmigration from Mauritania since the 1970s."

From out- + migration.