Around 33,500 Lebanese youths leave home country this year

Source: Xinhua| 2018-12-08 00:04:18|Editor: yan
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BEIRUT, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- Around 33,500 Lebanese youths emigrated from Lebanon in 2018, doubling the figure registered last year, the Monthly Magazine reported Friday.

"Lebanon will become an aging society due to the immigration of thousands of its youths every year," it said.

It noted that the reason behind this trend is the deteriorating economic and social situation in Lebanon.

"The Lebanese youths are very well educated and they are very ambitious," Layal Mansour, a researcher at the American University of Beirut, told Xinhua.

Mansour said that these people prefer to travel even if they manage to find a job in Lebanon because they are always looking for better opportunities, higher salaries and better living conditions.

Mansour added that Lebanon suffers from numerous problems that make the country's daily life very complicated.

"We have no electricity, no proper transport system or security which encourages these youths to seek better living conditions in other countries," she said.

"What I am saying is very relevant because as you can see, people with high profiles are also leaving the country such as managers, instructors and business owners and not only fresh graduates and students," she added.

The Monthly Magazine said that students who have traveled to join universities outside Lebanon reached 8,000 in September which is only half of the people who traveled during this month.

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