{"id":248443,"date":"2018-05-31T08:58:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T06:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=248443"},"modified":"2018-06-21T12:46:09","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T10:46:09","slug":"these-are-the-top-countries-south-africans-are-emigrating-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/248443\/these-are-the-top-countries-south-africans-are-emigrating-to\/","title":{"rendered":"These are the top countries South Africans are emigrating to"},"content":{"rendered":"

American think tank, Pew Research, has released a new report<\/a> <\/strong>on the origins and destinations of the world’s migrants from 1990-2017.<\/p>\n

The data is based on international migrant data published by the United Nations. The United Nations uses a taxonomy of nations and territories and classifies migrants born in territories as international migrants, even if their citizenship is different from their territory of birth.<\/p>\n

According to the United Nations Population Division, an international migrant is someone who has been living for one year or longer in a country other than the one in which he or she was born.<\/p>\n

This means that many foreign workers and international students are counted as migrants. However, tourists, foreign-aid workers, temporary workers employed abroad for less than a year and overseas military personnel typically are not counted as migrants.<\/p>\n

Migration<\/strong><\/p>\n

When looking at South Africa’s data, Pew Research found that at least 900,000 people born in South Africa were currently living in other countries in 2017.<\/p>\n

For these South Africans the United Kingdom was the destination of choice, with 210,000 migrants as of 2017.<\/p>\n

However, it was closely followed by Australia (190,000) and other popular countries including the USA (100,000) and New Zealand (60,000).<\/p>\n

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2017 rank<\/th>\nCountry<\/th>\nMigrants<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nUnited Kingdom<\/td>\n210 000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nAustralia<\/td>\n190 000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nUnited States<\/td>\n100 000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nNew Zealand<\/td>\n60 000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nCanada<\/td>\n50 000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nAngola<\/td>\n40 000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nBotswana<\/td>\n40 000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nChile<\/td>\n20 000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nZimbabwe<\/td>\n20 000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nGermany<\/td>\n20 000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\nNetherlands<\/td>\n10 000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>\nSwaziland<\/td>\n10 000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\nIsrael<\/td>\n10 000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\nPortugal<\/td>\n10 000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>\nMozambique<\/td>\n<10 000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16<\/td>\nIreland<\/td>\n<10 000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17<\/td>\nMalawi<\/td>\n<10 000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18<\/td>\nSwitzerland<\/td>\n<10 000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19<\/td>\nNamibia<\/td>\n<10 000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20<\/td>\nGreece<\/td>\n<10 000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Read:\u00a0The 10 best countries for you to emigrate to<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

American think tank, Pew Research, has released a new report on the origins and destinations of the world’s migrants from 1990-2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":118404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[26,7605],"class_list":["post-248443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-headline","tag-pew-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248443","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=248443"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253203,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248443\/revisions\/253203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}