Dec 4, 2011
How many Chinese live in Africa?
Hard numbers are hard to come by. The Economist gives a number only for South Africa (see this post). The two books reviewed on this site give a few numbers but never a complete coverage. The World Bank put some numbers together for around the year 2000, before the last wave of immigration. I just found some data put together by Park in 2009 that seems to be the best currently available. The map below shows their distribution across countries. The scale is in log.
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The World Bank also has new data for 2010 in a "Bilateral Migration Matrix 2010", which updates Ratha and Shaw (2007). There are quite a few discrepancies to your data though. For instance, the WB data have no Chinese living in South Africa...
thx! i didnt know the WB had updated to 2010... funny there's no Chinese in South Africa tho... how is that possible??? who's this, Chris?
sorry, should have added my name. It's Sebastian (used to be Masters student at HEI, still reading your blog ;))
No Chinese in South Africa sounds wrong...
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