EU Residence Permits for Americans Rose 1.9% as the Overall Total Fell 8.3%
EU residence permits for Americans rose in 2024 even as the bloc handed out fewer of them to almost everyone else. American citizens received 80,424 first residence permits across the 27 EU countries, up 1.9% from 78,911 in 2023 and the highest annual total in Eurostat’s series going back to 2013. The rest of the […]
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American emigration, measured strictly from what governments publish.
Half a million Americans leave the United States in a typical year, yet no public source tracks where they go. AER assembles each country's published series (censuses, residence permits, naturalizations, visitor visas) into one comparable view. We don't estimate. We don't model. Where the data exists, we publish it. Where it doesn't, we say so.
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We score every country 0 to 5 on the data they publish about US citizens. These are this year's top 5.
The Eurostat Decade: U.S. Nationals in Europe, 2014–2025
Eurostat is the only receiving-country statistical infrastructure that publishes harmonised, country-disaggregated migration data on U.S. nationals. Taken on its own terms, the decade ending in 2025 reveals four overlapping American stories in Europe — and they pull in different directions.
Counted but Invisible: Americans and the Caribbean Citizenship-by-Investment States
Five CARICOM states operate citizenship-by-investment programmes whose grants carry free movement across the region. U.S. nationals are plausibly the largest single applicant group — but they appear in neither country's books: not as residents abroad, and not as emigrants at home.
The Data Wall: How the Gulf States Count Americans — and Don't
Across the Gulf, residence-permit administrations enumerate foreign nationals by nationality for visa-management and security purposes — and publish almost none of it. The U.S. presence in the GCC, plausibly on the order of 50,000 to 80,000 people, is the clearest case of administrative capacity producing non-publication.
Surge in Americans Relocating to Greece Amid Growing US Financial Strains
A recent report published by PropertyWire on June 25 highlights a surge in Americans applying for Greek residency, with a 49% increase in the first half of 2025 alone.
Everyone sees it happening.
No one is documenting it.
Most coverage of Americans living abroad is fragmented, anecdotal or limited to individual countries. The AER data project is being built as a consistent, comparable data platform that tracks how American emigration actually works in practice: residency, migration flows, settlement patterns, citizenship, long-term outcomes.