Outmigration

noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

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emigration

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

Etymology

From out- + migration.

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