Migration impact
🇿🇦 South Africa
A plain-language summary of who arrives, who leaves, and what the government spends on migration in South Africa. Every headline figure is a reported value from an official source — nothing is estimated.
At a glance
Headline figures
856,910
Total incoming
People arrived, all recorded years
23,514
Total outgoing
People left, all recorded years
+833,396
Net balance
Net inflow
—
Spent on migrants
No reported figure
Trend
Incoming vs outgoing, by year
Arrivals compared with departures for each reported year. Use the selector to read the exact figures for a single year.
137,535
Incoming
3,894
Outgoing
+133,641
Net that year
Public expenditure
What the government spends on migrants
Migration-related public spending (refugee support and development assistance provided) in current US dollars. For donor countries this includes in-donor refugee costs.
No migration-spending figure is recorded for South Africa yet. Many countries only report this if they are OECD DAC donors.