Nigeria is one of them, and while Nigeria has a large diaspora and is still poor, the absolutely massive GDP growth over the last decade and a perception that people with Western educations can live much better in Nigeria on what they can make there than elsewhere has caused many Nigerians to return.<p>My ex is Nigerian, and keeps complaining about how many of her friends are now moving back for this reason. In most of these cases these are people with dual citizenships (e.g. my ex has dual citizenship as her dad was born in the UK) or who have lived in the UK long enough to obtain indefinite leave to remain, so most of them are leaving entirely out of choice.<p>I&#x27;m sure there&#x27;s still a desire to move to the UK for a lot of Nigerians, but I&#x27;m also unconvinced that this is what drives the higher numbers that says global first.<p>Perhaps in some cases at least it is more down to rapid growth actually giving them a sense of &quot;joining the world stage&quot; and e.g. actually getting the opportunity to travel and work elsewhere that was limited to very small proportions before.