{"id":293908,"date":"2019-01-17T08:09:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T06:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=293908"},"modified":"2019-01-17T08:09:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T06:09:46","slug":"heres-how-many-south-africans-are-leaving-for-new-zealand-australia-and-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/293908\/heres-how-many-south-africans-are-leaving-for-new-zealand-australia-and-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s how many South Africans are leaving for New Zealand, Australia and the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Africa is reportedly experiencing a sharp rise in people emigrating – with data from some of the most popular receiver countries showing the scale.<\/p>\n

This is also backed up with data from emigration assistance groups – which report a 22% rise in interest among South Africans looking to emigrate – as well as property data.<\/p>\n

According to November 2018 data provided by FNB, the trend towards selling to emigrate has increased over the last quarter, with the bank finding that that approximately 8% of total sellers in Gauteng say they were selling to emigrate, just behind 9.57% in Cape Town and 10.64% in Ethekwini.<\/p>\n

American think tank, Pew Research, estimates<\/a> <\/strong>that at least 900,000 people born in South Africa were currently living in other countries in 2017. Alarmingly, many of these people are skilled and educated, resulting in a major brain drain.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Department of Home Affairs does not keep record of South Africans who emigrate permanently; however, receiver countries do keep track of immigrants, which gives an indication of how many people are actually leaving.<\/p>\n

Countries like the UK, New Zealand and Australia are popular destinations for skilled South Africans looking for an opportunity to further their careers, or create new beginnings for their family – particularly as many feel that South Africa\u2019s economy shows no sign of improving<\/a> <\/strong>in the near term.<\/p>\n

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UK<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of the 900,000 South Africans living abroad, Pew Research found that the United Kingdom was the destination of choice, with 210,000 migrants as of 2017.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of January, statistics provided to City Press<\/a><\/strong> by\u00a0UK\u2019s Office for National Statistics showed that approximately 7,300<\/strong> people emigrated from South Africa to the UK in 2017.<\/p>\n

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Australia<\/strong><\/p>\n

Data provided to BusinessTech in July 2018 shows that Australia remains a popular<\/a> <\/strong>choice for emigrating South Africans.<\/p>\n

The data focused on the \u2018permanent additions\u2019 to Australia\u2019s resident population in the 2016-2017 financial year.<\/p>\n

This includes the number of people who have obtained a permanent visa onshore, the number of settler arrivals during a given time period, and the number of people who have been granted a permanent protection visa onshore.<\/p>\n

Combined this added to a total of 5,397<\/strong> South Africans over this time period.<\/p>\n

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New Zealand<\/strong><\/p>\n

Statistics provided to BusinessTech at the end of 2018 found that New Zealand is becoming an increasingly<\/a> <\/strong>popular destination for emigrating South Africans.<\/p>\n

South Africans choose to move to New Zealand for numerous reasons, most notably because its safe, is child-friendly, and for job opportunities.<\/p>\n

Historically these South Africans have entered the country on residence and work visas, however, the data shows that there has also been an increase in student visa-arrivals in recent years.<\/p>\n

Notably, the data shows a sharp rise of accepted applicants in 2017 and 2018, with more than 5,534<\/strong> South Africans moving to the country by November 2018 alone.<\/p>\n

The below shows the permanent and\u00a0 long-term arrivals by South Africans and visa type:<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Year<\/th>\nResidence visa<\/th>\nStudent visa<\/th>\nVisitor visa<\/th>\nWork visa<\/th>\nOther<\/th>\nTotal<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
2004<\/td>\n469<\/td>\n162<\/td>\n325<\/td>\n428<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n1 384<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/td>\n409<\/td>\n180<\/td>\n407<\/td>\n505<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n1 507<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006<\/td>\n724<\/td>\n187<\/td>\n351<\/td>\n456<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n1 718<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007<\/td>\n660<\/td>\n344<\/td>\n368<\/td>\n675<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n2 051<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008<\/td>\n704<\/td>\n544<\/td>\n541<\/td>\n1 141<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n2 933<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2009<\/td>\n752<\/td>\n429<\/td>\n279<\/td>\n691<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n2 163<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010<\/td>\n628<\/td>\n145<\/td>\n133<\/td>\n276<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n1 186<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/td>\n611<\/td>\n145<\/td>\n135<\/td>\n310<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n1 202<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012<\/td>\n494<\/td>\n175<\/td>\n149<\/td>\n339<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n1 158<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013<\/td>\n391<\/td>\n163<\/td>\n165<\/td>\n412<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n1 140<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014<\/td>\n531<\/td>\n264<\/td>\n201<\/td>\n591<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n1 589<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>\n493<\/td>\n352<\/td>\n278<\/td>\n856<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n1 982<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>\n576<\/td>\n842<\/td>\n514<\/td>\n1 864<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n3 799<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>\n659<\/td>\n1 225<\/td>\n679<\/td>\n2 565<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n5 133<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>\n444<\/td>\n1 413<\/td>\n714<\/td>\n2 953<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n5 534<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Countries including the UK, New Zealand and Australia are popular destinations for skilled South Africans looking for an opportunity to further their careers, or create new beginnings for their family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":192532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-293908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293908","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=293908"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293934,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293908\/revisions\/293934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}