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Registered foreigners are counted across 192 nationalities.

Cameroon

People registered with Cameroon nationality number 765, which is less than 0.1% of all registered foreigners and ranks 53 in size. Compared with 676 in 2015, 10 years earlier, that is an increase of about 13.2%. They live in 90 districts, and the largest counts are Gyeonggi-do Pyeongtaek-si with 157, Gyeonggi-do Ansan-si Danwon-gu with 115, and Gyeonggi-do Ansan-si Sangnok-gu with 64. The index of dissimilarity (D) from Koreans is 0.688, the isolation index is 0, and interaction with Koreans is 0.948. The highest location quotient (LQ) is in Gyeonggi-do Ansan-si Danwon-gu at 26.7, where this nationality is 0% of the foreigners in that district. The continent of origin is Africa. The largest age group is 35-39 at 23.8%, and men are 61.3%. This value alone is based on staying foreigners. Estimated mother tongues are Bulu at 8.5% and Fula at 7.4%.

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	Cameroon	All registered foreigners	Relative to total
Registered foreigners	765	1,604,920	under 0.1% of the total
Districts of residence	90	250	36.0% of the total
Index of dissimilarity (D)	0.688	0.280	rank 26 of 107
Isolation index	0.0001	0.045	rank 54 of 107
Interaction with Koreans	0.948	0.955	rank 87 of 107
Continent	Africa	24,473 (1.5% of the total)	3.1% of those from Africa

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.Cameroon 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	Cameroon	Vietnam
2006	53	52,157
2007	66	67,197
2008	86	79,848
2009	140	86,166
2010	185	98,225
2011	213	110,564
2012	354	114,211
2013	502	113,843
2014	599	122,571
2015	676	128,042
2016	789	137,769
2017	850	151,385
2018	879	170,707
2019	818	187,334
2020	847	181,415
2021	847	178,928
2022	826	196,883
2023	795	227,930
2024	769	261,581
2025	765	293,907

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

Year 2025

Rank	District	Cameroon Nationality	Share of local foreigners
1	Gyeonggi-do Pyeongtaek-si	157	0.4
2	Gyeonggi-do Ansan-si Danwon-gu	115	0.3
3	Gyeonggi-do Ansan-si Sangnok-gu	64	0.4
4	Gyeonggi-do Paju-si	48	0.3
5	Gyeonggi-do Suwon-si Yeongtong-gu	37	0.4
6	Gyeonggi-do Suwon-si Paldal-gu	30	0.2
7	Gwangju Buk-gu	22	0.4
8	Gangwon-do Chuncheon-si	20	0.4
9	Gyeonggi-do Goyang-si Deogyang-gu	20	0.3
10	Gyeongsangnam-do Gimhae-si	11	0.0

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

Note: Nationwide, Cameroon nationals make up 0.1% 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	Cameroon Nationality	Location quotient (LQ)
1	Gyeonggi-do Ansan-si Danwon-gu	115	26.7
2	Gyeonggi-do Pyeongtaek-si	157	17.3
3	Gyeonggi-do Ansan-si Sangnok-gu	64	13.3
4	Gyeonggi-do Suwon-si Paldal-gu	30	10.5
5	Gyeonggi-do Suwon-si Yeongtong-gu	37	6.9
6	Gyeonggi-do Paju-si	48	6.1
7	Gangwon-do Goseong-gun	2	5.0
8	Gangwon-do Chuncheon-si	20	4.7
9	Gangwon-do Hoengseong-gun	3	4.4
10	Jeollanam-do Yeongam-gun	3	4.0

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 Cameroon nationality, 2025Unit: persons, %

Year 2025

Visa category	Persons	Share
Other statuses(ETC)	163	21.3
Other(G1)	151	19.7
Student(D2)	141	18.4
Dependent Family(F3)	91	11.9
General Trainee(D4)	50	6.5
Job Seeker(D10)	49	6.4
Residential(F2)	36	4.7
Marriage Migration(F6)	24	3.1
Other statuses	60	7.8

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

Note: The rows of this table add to 765, the whole of the Cameroon nationality.

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

Year 2025

Age group	Total	Male	Female	Share
0-4	69	31	38	8.5
5-9	51	25	26	6.2
10-14	16	6	10	2.0
15-19	12	6	6	1.5
20-24	22	10	12	2.7
25-29	69	39	30	8.5
30-34	149	83	66	18.3
35-39	194	140	54	23.8
40-44	125	88	37	15.3
45-49	50	32	18	6.1
50-54	26	17	9	3.2
55-59	23	18	5	2.8
60+	10	5	5	1.2

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

Only this table counts all foreign residents, so it totals 816 rather than the 765 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	3.5	8.1	48.8	14.0	7.0
2009	1.4	10.7	55.7	13.6	6.4
2010	1.6	13.0	54.1	14.1	8.6
2011	3.8	9.9	49.8	15.0	7.5
2012	2.8	14.1	36.7	11.3	23.7
2013	2.8	21.3	36.7	10.2	20.7
2014	2.8	31.9	34.7	12.0	8.2
2015	2.4	33.4	32.0	13.2	4.0
2016	1.9	32.3	34.7	12.5	5.8
2017	1.6	27.2	35.9	13.1	7.9
2018	1.6	27.6	32.3	14.1	5.2
2019	8.2	26.8	32.4	12.5	2.2
2020	21.4	23.4	26.2	9.8	1.7
2021	21.8	19.8	26.4	10.9	2.2
2022	22.2	17.9	29.4	10.8	1.7
2023	23.8	14.6	26.8	12.6	0.0
2024	23.7	16.1	21.3	13.4	3.0
2025	21.3	19.7	18.4	11.9	6.5

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)	Interaction with Koreans
2014	0.759	0.950
2015	0.746	0.946
2016	0.751	0.948
2017	0.739	0.950
2018	0.725	0.947
2019	0.707	0.949
2020	0.734	0.952
2021	0.730	0.956
2022	0.714	0.956
2023	0.688	0.953
2024	0.684	0.950
2025	0.688	0.948

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

First language		Share
Bulu		8.5
Fula		7.4
Ewondo		5.7
Bamun		4.1
Ghomálá’		3.5
Basaa		3.0
Yemba		3.0
Eton		2.5

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, Cameroon 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	Cameroon Nationality	Share of national
Gyeonggi-do	516	67.5
Seoul	34	4.4
Gwangju	32	4.2
Gyeongsangnam-do	29	3.8
Gangwon-do	28	3.7
Gyeongsangbuk-do	24	3.1
Incheon	16	2.1
Daegu	15	2.0
Jeollabuk-do	14	1.8
Busan	12	1.6
Chungcheongnam-do	12	1.6
Jeollanam-do	11	1.4
Chungcheongbuk-do	10	1.3
Daejeon	7	0.9
Sejong	5	0.7