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How many foreign-born people are there in South Africa?

South Africa’s statistics agency, StatsSA, puts the total number of foreigners in South Africa in 2021 at 3.95 million. According to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA), there were 4.2 million foreigners in South Africa in 2019. Related: Unproven that...

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