{"id":120211,"date":"2016-04-13T19:15:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T17:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=120211"},"modified":"2016-04-14T11:42:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T09:42:15","slug":"this-map-shows-where-all-south-africas-skilled-workers-are-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/120211\/this-map-shows-where-all-south-africas-skilled-workers-are-going\/","title":{"rendered":"This map shows where all South Africa’s skilled workers are going"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new data map shows which countries South Africa’s highly skilled workforce is moving to – adding to a massive brain drain in the country.<\/p>\n

According to the map, published by the Code For South Africa Data Journalism Academy<\/a>, almost 47,000 skilled professionals had left South Africa and entered into OECD nations for work.<\/p>\n

Of the professionals, most were teachers and education professionals- 17,500. This is followed by health and life science professionals, which saw 10,800 individuals leave.<\/p>\n

The data shows that the UK and Australia were the biggest gainers of South African skills – with the UK taking in over 18,500 skilled South Africans, followed by Australia, taking 13,000.<\/p>\n

\"Skills<\/a><\/p>\n

Recent data from FNB showed that\u00a0the number of people selling their homes in South Africa in order to emigrate, increased steadily in 2015.<\/p>\n

A 2015\u00a0report by InterNations Expat Insider<\/a> shed some light on the profile of South African expats, finding that\u00a0around half of all South African expats are skilled employees or managers \u2013 and a quarter identify as being in top management positions.<\/p>\n

New World Wealth recently revealed that thousands of South African millionaires – specifically white millionaires – had fled the country in the past year, citing political unrest and safety concerns in their decision to leave.<\/p>\n

According to InterNations, 70% of South African expats are generally satisfied with leaving the country, with only 13% feeling dissatisfied with their decision.<\/p>\n

These are the countries where skilled South Africans are going – and the most popular destination per skill:<\/p>\n

By country<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
#<\/th>\nCountry<\/th>\nSkilled South Africans<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\n\u00a0United Kingdom<\/td>\n18 581<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\n\u00a0Australia<\/td>\n13 060<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\n\u00a0Canada<\/td>\n7 589<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\n\u00a0Ireland<\/td>\n2 317<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\n\u00a0Portugal<\/td>\n2 097<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\n\u00a0Czech Republic<\/td>\n1 394<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\n\u00a0Sweden<\/td>\n668<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\n\u00a0New Zealand<\/td>\n324<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\n\u00a0Greece<\/td>\n235<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\n\u00a0Switzerland<\/td>\n234<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\n\u00a0France<\/td>\n163<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>\n\u00a0Austria<\/td>\n140<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\n\u00a0United States<\/td>\n21<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\n\u00a0Norway<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>\n\u00a0Germany<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

By skill<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Skill<\/th>\nCountry<\/th>\nSkilled South Africans<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Teaching<\/td>\nUK<\/td>\n10 988<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
General Managers<\/td>\nCanada<\/td>\n2 967<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Life science and health professionals<\/td>\nUK<\/td>\n3 659<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Legislators and senior officials<\/td>\nCzech Republic<\/td>\n695<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Physical maths and engineering<\/td>\nCzech Republic<\/td>\n695<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

More on South Africans abroad<\/h3>\n

This one graph shows that South Africans are leaving the country<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

South African expats could be kicked out of the UK<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

South Africa losing expat appeal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Game-changing moments in South African politics<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new data map shows which countries South Africa’s highly skilled workforce is moving to – adding to a massive brain drain in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":51640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11325,11327,76,26],"class_list":["post-120211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-brain-drain","tag-code-for-sa","tag-fnb","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120211"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120309,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120211\/revisions\/120309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}