Data comes from the World Migration Report 2022 published by the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Only the largest destination country for South Africans is the United Kingdom. After the economic collapse of South Africa in the 80s, white South Africans fled the country with their families, mainly to the United Kingdom and Australia. There are currently about 250,000 South Africans in the UK.
Only the largest destination country for Libyans is Italy. There are currently about 35,000 Libyans in Italy.
Egyptians migrated mainly to Saudi Arabia. Egypt is the most populous country in the Middle East, and the age structure is young, so Egypt has always been a major exporter of labor in the Middle East, exporting millions of labor to the Gulf region, Saudi Arabia has about 1 million Egyptians, the UAE 900,000, Kuwait 420,000, Qatar 200,000. In 2020, Egypt received US$30 billion in remittances, ranking fifth in the world and first in Africa.
The largest destination countries for Mali, Burkina Faso and Guineans are Côte d'Ivoire. Although Côte d'Ivoire is not a rich country in terms of data at present, its agricultural conditions are superior, and it was rich in West Africa in the 60s and 70s by growing cocoa and coffee. At that time, there was war in the countries surrounding Côte d'Ivoire, and a large number of refugees fled to Côte d'Ivoire. Since the beginning of this century, a large number of laborers from neighboring countries have come to work on the plantations of Côte d'Ivoire, bringing millions of resident foreigners to Côte d'Ivoire, including about 1.4 million Burkines, 520,000 Malians and 200,000 Guineans.
The largest destinations in Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and Sao Tome and Principe are Portugal, all former Portuguese colonies. With about 180,000 Angolans, Portugal has the largest group of foreign descent in Portugal.
The largest destination countries for Niger, Ghana, Togo and Benin are Nigeria.
All of South Africa's neighbours have South Africa as their main destination destination. As the saying goes, the short man is the general of Riba, South Africa's economic level is still the highest in southern Africa, with relatively large industrial and financial industries, which is very attractive to the residents of surrounding poor countries. There are 700,000 Zimbabweans, 350,000 Mozambicans and 200,000 Lesothos in South Africa.
The largest destination countries for Nigeria, Ethiopia, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Liberia, Sierra Leone and The Gambia are the United States. Most of them are English-speaking countries.
The largest destination for 12 countries, including Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Cameroon, is France. France had vast colonies in West and Central Africa. After the collapse of the colonial system in the second half of the last century, France still did not want to withdraw from Africa, but strengthened its control over the former colonies, and knocked the bones of the former colonies through the African franc.
France's great influence in Africa has also made it the most important destination for Africans. There are 8.5 million immigrants in France, half of them from Africa, but the main force is not blacks, but Mediterranean-type whites in the Maghreb region (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia), Algerians about 1.6 million, the largest group of foreign origin in France, about 1.06 million Moroccans and 440,000 Tunisians.
The rest of the countries are mainly migrating to neighbouring countries, and I have marked the arrows, most of which are poor landlocked African countries, and the migration population is mainly refugees.