NZ popular in world migration poll

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New Zealand's adult population would triple if everyone who wanted to move to this country was allowed to.

The finding comes in a Gallup poll of more than 300,000 people worldwide. Gallup calculated each country's net migration score - the number of adults who would like to leave minus the number who would like to move in.

At the bottom of the list is Sierra Leone in west Africa. If everyone who wanted to leave Sierra Leone could, and those who wanted to move there did, the country's population would fall by more than half.

- Newstalk ZB