* Year given refers to July 1.
Data are estimates based on official statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population.
Countries with less than 5,000 migrants have been excluded.
The source defines an international migrant as 鈥渁ny person who changes his or her country of usual residence鈥.
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Number of emigrants from South Africa 2020, by country of destination and gender
In 2020, cumulative South African emigrants amounted to roughly *** million. The vast majority settled in United Kingdom (roughly *** thousand), followed by Australia (nearly *** thousand). Together, the two countries constituted roughly ** percent of the total South African migrants living abroad. Moreover, the South African female-to-male ratio in these countries was relatively equal.
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