This is how international today's families really are

You might have voted yourself or read about the poll on our blog. We gave it some more weeks and an astonishly 1600 people gave us insights into their family’s situations. And the results are stunning.

A vast majority of families is actually international! 54% of the families on a global level have relatives living abroad. So probably many of those, who moved to another country, got to know another culture and maybe even learned another language. If you are a bit lofty and emotional you might say: This is freedom.

It definitely is an indication for the globalization that doesnt only happen on an economic level, but on a personal one as well. It is the time of international exchange and understanding and Kindo wants to foster that.

Here are some more of the results in details:

• In total it’s more than half of the families that have relatives living outside their homecountry
• 61% of the British and 68% of the American families are spread out beyond their countries
• Russia has very international families with 76% having experienced family members to move outside the country.
• Turkey seems to have very local families and only 32% have family members outside Turkey.

That’s the most interesting stuff. As you can see, we have put some more data in graphs, so it’s easier to understand.

All the votes were analyzed by location of the user – we got them from 54 different countries – and language, so to determine nationality we used a mixure of those two criteria. It’s not been a study with scientific entitlement, which makes the great results even more astonishing.
If you do scientific research in this field don’t hesitate to get in touch, maybe we can set up some more detailed undertakings in the future.

By the way: We have made a press release (pdf) out of that as well

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