The more educated South Africans are, the more of them have considered emigrating

Method and sources

Each bar is the proportion of adults within an education group who have considered emigrating, from Afrobarometer's survey as reported in the article.
Primary 10%, secondary 18%, post-secondary 28%, university or higher 38%.
The article gives 27% for all adults and 42% for the economically well-off, from a survey of 1,582 South African adults. Having considered emigrating is not the same as planning to leave or leaving.
The article describes this as Afrobarometer's 2024 survey, published as Dispatch No. 914 in December 2024, and gives no fieldwork dates, so the period is the 2024 calendar year.
Source: Afrobarometer Dispatch No. 914 (https://www.afrobarometer.org/publication/ad914-south-africans-thinking-about-emigration-most-educated-wealthiest-employed-young/)

Figures as published in our article on where South Africans are emigrating (last updated 3 July 2026): Afrobarometer Dispatch No. 914 on South Africans thinking about emigration, December 2024.

Chart updated · 14 Sep 2026. The observation dates above describe the data, not today’s conditions.