Indian diaspora in Southeast Africa

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Indian diaspora in Southeast Africa

Regions with significant populations
South Africa	1,697,506
Mauritius	882,000
Réunion	220,000
Kenya	110,000
Mozambique	70,000
Tanzania	60,000
Uganda	50,000
Madagascar	25,000
Zambia	13,000
Botswana	10,000
Zimbabwe	9,500
Seychelles	5,000
Malawi	4,000
Lesotho	4,000
Languages
Colonial Languages: English French Portuguese Indian Languages: Bhojpuri Tamil Hindi Gujarati Marathi Telugu Odia Urdu Other Languages of India Local Languages: Mauritian Creole Bemba language Réunion Creole Seychellois Creole Malagasy Sena Swahili Chichewa language
Religion
Majority: Hinduism Islam Catholicism Protestantism Minority: Sikhism Zoroastrianism Jainism Atheism Agnosticism
Related ethnic groups
People of Indian Origin

The Indian diaspora in Southeast Africa consists of approximately 3 million people of Indian origin. Some of this diaspora in Southeast Africa arrived in the 19th century from British India as indentured labourers, many of them to work on the Kenya–Uganda railway. Others had arrived earlier by sea as traders.

Today, the Indian community in Southeast Africa is largely affluent and plays leading roles in the region's business sector and dominate the economies of many countries in the region.^[1]