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Registered foreigners are counted across 192 nationalities.

Bangladesh

People registered with Bangladesh nationality number 32,407, which is 2% of all registered foreigners and ranks 14 in size. Compared with 12,328 in 2015, 10 years earlier, that is an increase of about 162.9%. They live in 240 districts, and the largest counts are Gyeonggi-do Hwaseong-si with 2,744, Gyeonggi-do Gimpo-si with 1,891, and Gyeonggi-do Pocheon-si with 1,758. The index of dissimilarity (D) from Koreans is 0.51, the isolation index is 0.002, and interaction with Koreans is 0.95. The highest location quotient (LQ) is in Gyeonggi-do Pocheon-si at 19.8, where this nationality is 1.3% of the foreigners in that district. The continent of origin is South Asia. The largest age group is 25-29 at 22.3%, and men are 82.8%. This value alone is based on staying foreigners. Estimated mother tongues are Bengali at 79.9% and Chittagonian at 8%.

Source: MOJ Statistical Yearbook on Immigration and Foreign Policy 2025 (registered foreigners by nationality, registered foreigners by nationality and district, registered foreigners by status of stay), staying foreigners by nationality and age

The index of dissimilarity, the isolation index, and the location quotient are calculated from the open dataset.

Table 1.Key indicators and benchmarks, 2025Unit: people, organizations, index

Year 2025

Indicators	Bangladesh	All registered foreigners	Relative to total
Registered foreigners	32,407	1,604,920	2.0% of the total
Districts of residence	240	250	96.0% of the total
Index of dissimilarity (D)	0.510	0.280	rank 73 of 107
Isolation index	0.0023	0.045	rank 14 of 107
Interaction with Koreans	0.950	0.955	rank 83 of 107
Continent	South Asia	193,031 (12.0% of the total)	16.8% of those from South Asia

Source: MOJ Statistical Yearbook (registered foreigners by nationality), segregation indicators from the open dataset.

Note: the dissimilarity index D measures how far a nationality's distribution across districts differs from that of Korean nationals; 0 means the two distributions match and 1 means complete separation. Isolation is the probability that a member meets someone of the same nationality, and interaction the probability of meeting a Korean resident. In the All registered foreigners column the three indices treat all registered foreigners as one group and use the same formulas. In the Relative to total column, rank 1 is the highest value among nationalities with 100 or more registered foreigners that year; in the continent row that column gives this nationality's share of all registered foreigners from the continent.

Figure 1.Bangladesh nationals among registered foreigners, 2006–2025Unit: 10,000 persons

Source: MOJ Statistical Yearbook, each year.

Note: The vertical scale resets to the size of the selected nationality.

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Year	Bangladesh	Vietnam
2006	8,596	52,157
2007	7,821	67,197
2008	7,656	79,848
2009	7,255	86,166
2010	9,317	98,225
2011	10,561	110,564
2012	10,766	114,211
2013	10,888	113,843
2014	12,065	122,571
2015	12,328	128,042
2016	13,180	137,769
2017	13,623	151,385
2018	14,284	170,707
2019	14,975	187,334
2020	13,813	181,415
2021	13,163	178,928
2022	17,539	196,883
2023	22,939	227,930
2024	27,875	261,581
2025	32,407	293,907

Table 2.Bangladesh nationality, top 10 districts, 2025Unit: persons, %

Year 2025

Rank	District	Bangladesh Nationality	Share of local foreigners
1	Gyeonggi-do Hwaseong-si	2,744	5.0
2	Gyeonggi-do Gimpo-si	1,891	7.2
3	Gyeonggi-do Pocheon-si	1,758	10.5
4	Gyeonggi-do Siheung-si	1,123	2.7
5	Gyeonggi-do Gwangju-si	1,049	6.8
6	Gyeonggi-do Paju-si	1,024	6.2
7	Gyeongsangnam-do Gimhae-si	866	3.2
8	Gyeonggi-do Yangju-si	865	8.5
9	Incheon Seo-gu	825	5.0
10	Busan Nam-gu	775	9.6

Source: MOJ Statistical Yearbook (registered foreigners by district and nationality).

Note: Nationwide, Bangladesh nationals make up 2.0% of all registered foreigners, so an area whose share is above that holds relatively many of them.

Table 3.10 districts with the highest location quotient, 2025Unit: people, ratio, %

Year 2025

Rank	District	Bangladesh Nationality	Location quotient (LQ)	Share of local foreigners
1	Gyeonggi-do Pocheon-si	1,758	19.8	1.3
2	Gangwon-do Goseong-gun	253	14.9	0.9
3	Jeollanam-do Yeongam-gun	347	11.0	0.7
4	Chungcheongbuk-do Eumseong-gun	610	10.2	0.6
5	Gyeonggi-do Yeoncheon-gun	173	6.5	0.4
6	Gyeonggi-do Gimpo-si	1,891	6.2	0.4
7	Busan Nam-gu	775	4.9	0.3
8	Gyeongsangbuk-do Seongju-gun	125	4.9	0.3
9	Jeollabuk-do Gimje-si	248	4.8	0.3
10	Gyeonggi-do Yangju-si	865	4.6	0.3

Source: Location quotient from the open dataset.

Note: the location quotient is the local share divided by the national share; above 1.5 counts as over-representation.

Table 4.By status of stay Bangladesh nationality, 2025Unit: persons, %

Year 2025

Visa category	Persons	Share
Non-professional Employment(E9)	13,448	41.5
Specially Designated Activities(E7)	4,979	15.4
Dependent Family(F3)	4,940	15.2
Student(D2)	3,688	11.4
Residential(F2)	1,240	3.8
Other(G1)	1,060	3.3
Other statuses(ETC)	886	2.7
General Trainee(D4)	591	1.8
Other statuses	1,575	4.9

Source: MOJ Statistical Yearbook (registered foreigners by status of stay and nationality).

Note: The rows of this table add to 32,407, the whole of the Bangladesh nationality.

Table 5.Age and sex, 2025Unit: persons, %

Year 2025

Age group	Total	Male	Female	Share
0-4	1,781	904	877	5.0
5-9	1,000	492	508	2.8
10-14	337	162	175	0.9
15-19	407	198	209	1.1
20-24	5,120	3,654	1,466	14.3
25-29	8,021	6,579	1,442	22.3
30-34	7,306	6,513	793	20.3
35-39	4,711	4,332	379	13.1
40-44	2,424	2,269	155	6.7
45-49	841	768	73	2.3
50-54	883	844	39	2.5
55-59	1,791	1,763	28	5.0
60+	1,291	1,268	23	3.6

Source: MOJ Statistical Yearbook (staying foreigners by nationality and age).

Only this table counts all foreign residents, so it totals 35,913 rather than the 32,407 registered foreigners

Figure 2.Composition by age and sex, 2025Unit: %

Year 2025

Source: MOJ Statistical Yearbook (staying foreigners by nationality and age).

Note: The bar length is the share each cell holds within the whole nationality. This figure alone uses staying foreigners, so its total differs from registered foreigners.

Figure 3.Change in status-of-stay composition, 2008–2025Unit: %

Source: MOJ Statistical Yearbook, each year (registered foreigners by status of stay and nationality).

Note: The share each status holds within this nationality in that year. The five largest statuses in 2025 are drawn.

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Year
2008	56.4	0.0	2.3	5.0	6.2
2009	56.6	0.0	3.4	6.6	6.3
2010	80.2	0.0	3.0	5.5	4.7
2011	81.6	0.6	3.0	5.1	4.0
2012	82.4	0.8	2.7	4.8	1.8
2013	82.2	0.9	2.8	4.8	1.2
2014	82.6	0.8	3.0	4.7	1.0
2015	78.9	0.9	3.3	5.1	1.2
2016	77.2	0.9	3.3	5.8	1.6
2017	75.3	1.2	3.7	6.9	1.9
2018	72.7	1.5	3.8	7.9	2.5
2019	67.5	2.1	3.9	8.7	3.9
2020	59.5	2.8	3.9	8.1	4.5
2021	54.4	4.1	5.2	9.1	4.6
2022	59.6	4.2	6.1	8.5	3.8
2023	55.3	10.7	7.0	8.5	4.0
2024	48.5	13.4	11.9	9.9	3.9
2025	41.5	15.4	15.2	11.4	3.8

Figure 4.Residential segregation and exposure over time, 2014–2025Unit: index

Indicators

Source: Segregation indicators from the open dataset.

Note: the dissimilarity index D measures how far a nationality's distribution across districts differs from that of Korean nationals, isolation is the probability that a member meets someone of the same nationality, and interaction the probability of meeting a Korean resident. The three run on different ranges, so they are selected one at a time.

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Year	Index of dissimilarity (D)	Isolation index	Interaction with Koreans
2014	0.545	0.001	0.961
2015	0.542	0.001	0.960
2016	0.546	0.001	0.961
2017	0.538	0.001	0.961
2018	0.531	0.001	0.960
2019	0.518	0.001	0.960
2020	0.512	0.001	0.964
2021	0.508	0.001	0.966
2022	0.521	0.002	0.962
2023	0.523	0.002	0.957
2024	0.524	0.002	0.952
2025	0.510	0.002	0.950

Table 6.Bangladesh nationality, mother-tongue compositionUnit: %

First language		Share
Bengali		79.9
Chittagonian		8.0
Rangpuri		6.2
Sylheti		4.0
Rohingya		0.6
Bangla Sign Language		0.5

Source: Ethnologue 24th edition, first-language shares by country.

Note: the estimated demand on the language page is this share multiplied by the registered foreign population of each nationality. Shares below 0.5% are not listed, and a person who speaks more than one language is not distinguished.

Figure 5.By province, Bangladesh nationality, 2025Unit: persons

Year 2025

Count range

Note: The boundaries are shapes simplified for display and are drawn as pen lines. The fill values are the provincial totals from the yearbook and do not depend on the shapes.

Source: MOJ Statistical Yearbook (registered foreigners by nationality and district), summed to the province level.

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Province	Bangladesh Nationality	Share of national
Gyeonggi-do	15,194	46.9
Gyeongsangnam-do	2,479	7.6
Incheon	1,900	5.9
Busan	1,808	5.6
Chungcheongnam-do	1,596	4.9
Chungcheongbuk-do	1,471	4.5
Gyeongsangbuk-do	1,445	4.5
Seoul	1,425	4.4
Jeollabuk-do	1,363	4.2
Jeollanam-do	822	2.5
Daegu	783	2.4
Gangwon-do	642	2.0
Daejeon	622	1.9
Ulsan	447	1.4
Gwangju	223	0.7
Sejong	109	0.3
Jeju-do	78	0.2