Emigration has been a phenomenon that has been occurring in Croatia for many years. The phenomenon of migration is thus nothing new, but the problem of this work is not emigration as such, but the emigration of young and educated people. Young people decide to move to another country in search of greater opportunities, a better future, and a better life. In this paper, I will analyze the specific motives that are the impetus for this departure. As an important phenomenon and a potential problem of today, I believe that migration is insufficiently researched, and not enough attention is paid to prevent that process. Based on the method of content analysis and interviews with people who have permanently moved to another country from Croatia, I answered a research question that reads: What are the motivations of young people to emigrate from Croatia ?, and the assumed thesis was that push factors, i.e. push factors such as poor economic conditions, unemployment, social inequality and similar elements are ‘leading’ in the decision to leave and I have confirmed this. The aim of this paper was to determine the motives that motivate young people to emigrate from their homeland and thus to investigate the worrying trend of emigration of young people. The research included persons aged 20 to 30, with completed secondary and higher education who permanently emigrated from Croatia.