Share of parents with dependents who are emigrating from South Africa 2022
second most important reason that respondents gave for emigration, was to secure a better future for children.
As of 2022, around 62 percent of South Africans who were emigrating, or were planning to emigrate through the assistance of the New World Immigration organization, were parents with at least one dependent under the age of 18 years old. The remaining 38 percent had no dependent children. The