Living in Eswatini

A salary in Eswatini lands low against the rest of the world, though tax is light and you keep most of it. Everyday life is inexpensive, so what you earn stretches across the basics with a little room beyond them. Getting in is the harder part, since hiring tends to favor people already known, while English opens doors in some lines of work but not across the board.

Eswatini takes in modestly more people than it sends out: about 25.8K foreign-born residents, roughly 2% of the population, against a smaller diaspora of 11.6K. Both sides of its migration run almost entirely through South Africa, which is the top origin of arrivals (12.9K, with Mozambique next) and the main home of Swazis abroad. The foreign-born count has edged up just 4% over the past decade.