At the time of the 2021 United Kingdom census, 217,180 residents of England and Wales were born in South Africa.

[19] In Australia, there were 189,207 South African-born people living in the country at the moment of the 2021 Census.

[22][23][24] A number of White South Africans, most of them skilled, left the country in the years preceding and following the 1994 election that represented the end of the Apartheid era.

As a result, the diaspora mainly consists of white South African emigrants of British, Jewish (mostly via Latvian, German and Lithuanian ancestry) and to a lesser extent, Afrikaner origin.

In 2022, the most popular destinations for emigrating South Africans were the United Kingdom, Australia, Portugal, Canada and Mauritius.