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One out of every five Ukrainians would like to emigrate from Ukraine, shows a public opinion poll done on March 13-20, 2015.

The poll was done by the Special Monitoring center and the Ukrainian
Yaremenko Institute of Social Studies in cooperation with the department
of monitoring research and socio-economic reforms of the Institute of
Economics and Forecast of the Ukrainian national Academy of Sciences.

The poll showed that 20.7 percent of the respondents would like to emigrate,
and most of these people live in the western regions (23.1 percent ) and the
least amount of these people live in the northern regions of the country
(15.8 percent ) and Kyiv (16.2 percent).

A total of 72.7 percent of the respondents said they do not want to
emigrate. The most of these people live in the northern regions (79.4 percent ),
and the least of these people live in the eastern regions (66.5 percent).

A total of 6.6 percent were undecided.

A total of 14.5 percent of the respondents said they visited EU countries in
the past five years. Of these people, 8.3 percent visited the EU countries as
tourists, 3.7 percent went there to visit their relatives or friends, 0.6 percent went
there to study, and 1.4 percent went there on business trips.

The poll surveyed 2,800 respondents living in all regions of Ukraine,
including in Donbas, which is not controlled by the Ukrainian
authorities.