* Year given refers to July 1.
Data are estimates based on official statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population.
Countries that have less than 20,000 international migrants residing in South Africa were 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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International migrants in South Africa 2020, by country of origin
In 2020, South Africa hosted approximately **** million international migrants. The vast majority were from Zimbabwe, amounting to roughly *** thousand people. The neighboring country Mozambique was the origin of around *** thousand migrants, while *** thousand held Lesotho's nationality, which is an enclave within South Africa.
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