In 2020, the cumulative South African emigrants added up to roughly 915 thousand. The number of emigrants increased by around 16.3 percent in the five years starting 2015. Overall, an increasing trend in the number of people migrating from South Africa can be observed since 2000, when more than 501 thousand people left the country.
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