First half of 2020 also a 6X increase in the number of Americans giving up their citizenship compared to the prior year.
http://www.allgov.com/news/us-and-the-world/record-number-of...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-07/americans...
another one from 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/02/10...
> compared to the prior year
why only compare it to previous year? Previous year was the lowest. ~450 compared to ~3500 in 2014.
Alternate headline from last year:
CNN: Record number of americans not giving up citizenship .A fall of 600% compared to Obama presidency.