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Registered foreigners are counted across 192 nationalities.

Croatia

People registered with Croatia nationality number 91, which is less than 0.1% of all registered foreigners and ranks 111 in size. Compared with 79 in 2015, 10 years earlier, that is an increase of about 15.2%. They live in 44 districts, and the largest counts are Gyeongsangnam-do Geoje-si with 10, Ulsan Dong-gu with 10, and Busan Haeundae-gu with 5. The largest age group is 25-29 at 15%, and men are 58.8%. This value alone is based on staying foreigners. Estimated mother tongues are Croatian at 93.8% and Italian at 1.6%.

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	Croatia	All registered foreigners	Relative to total
Registered foreigners	91	1,604,920	under 0.1% of the total
Districts of residence	44	250	17.6% of the total
Index of dissimilarity (D)	-	0.280	-
Isolation index	-	0.045	-
Interaction with Koreans	-	0.955	-
Continent	-	-	-

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.Croatia 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	Croatia	Vietnam
2006	89	52,157
2007	70	67,197
2008	72	79,848
2009	79	86,166
2010	83	98,225
2011	91	110,564
2012	101	114,211
2013	127	113,843
2014	104	122,571
2015	79	128,042
2016	87	137,769
2017	67	151,385
2018	74	170,707
2019	63	187,334
2020	66	181,415
2021	64	178,928
2022	91	196,883
2023	89	227,930
2024	84	261,581
2025	91	293,907

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

Year 2025

Rank	District	Croatia Nationality	Share of local foreigners
1	Gyeongsangnam-do Geoje-si	10	0.1
2	Ulsan Dong-gu	10	0.1
3	Busan Haeundae-gu	5	0.1
4	Seoul Mapo-gu	4	0.0
5	Seoul Jung-gu	4	0.0
6	Ulsan Ulju-gun	4	0.0
7	Gwangju Buk-gu	3	0.1
8	Seoul Gwangjin-gu	3	0.0
9	Seoul Dongdaemun-gu	3	0.0
10	Seoul Yongsan-gu	3	0.0

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

Note: Nationwide, Croatia nationals make up 0.0% 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 2014

Rank	District	Croatia Nationality	Location quotient (LQ)
1	Ulsan Dong-gu	31	86.6
2	Gyeongsangnam-do Geoje-si	32	63.6
3	Jeollanam-do Yeongam-gun	1	8.4
4	Gyeongsangnam-do Changwon-si Jinhae-gu	3	8.1
5	Gyeongsangnam-do Haman-gun	1	7.2
6	Jeollanam-do Mokpo-si	3	6.2
7	Busan Haeundae-gu	5	5.8
8	Gyeongsangnam-do Sacheon-si	1	4.2
9	Chungcheongbuk-do Jecheon-si	1	3.6
10	Jeollabuk-do Gunsan-si	2	3.5

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 Croatia nationality, 2025Unit: persons, %

Year 2025

Visa category	Persons	Share
Marriage Migration(F6)	19	20.9
Trade Management(D9)	17	18.7
Student(D2)	12	13.2
Specially Designated Activities(E7)	8	8.8
Permanent Residence(F5)	6	6.6
Other statuses(ETC)	6	6.6
General Trainee(D4)	4	4.4
Arts & Entertainment(E6)	4	4.4
Other statuses	15	16.5

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

Note: The rows of this table add to 91, the whole of the Croatia nationality.

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

Year 2025

Age group	Total	Male	Female	Share
0-4	2	0	2	1.1
5-9	3	2	1	1.6
10-14	6	2	4	3.2
15-19	6	1	5	3.2
20-24	15	10	5	8.0
25-29	28	12	16	15.0
30-34	20	11	9	10.7
35-39	20	10	10	10.7
40-44	25	15	10	13.4
45-49	21	16	5	11.2
50-54	18	15	3	9.6
55-59	13	9	4	7.0
60+	10	7	3	5.3

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

Only this table counts all foreign residents, so it totals 187 rather than the 91 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	0.0	33.3	4.2	9.7	0.0
2009	0.0	31.6	1.3	10.1	0.0
2010	0.0	41.0	3.6	4.8	0.0
2011	0.0	38.5	0.0	5.5	0.0
2012	0.0	41.6	3.0	3.0	0.0
2013	3.9	56.7	5.5	2.4	0.0
2014	5.8	48.1	2.9	3.8	0.0
2015	7.6	39.2	8.9	7.6	0.0
2016	10.3	35.6	12.6	5.7	0.0
2017	13.4	25.4	16.4	7.5	0.0
2018	13.5	25.7	12.2	6.8	0.0
2019	14.3	28.6	7.9	7.9	0.0
2020	16.7	24.2	13.6	7.6	0.0
2021	18.8	21.9	12.5	9.4	4.7
2022	13.2	22.0	12.1	8.8	0.0
2023	15.7	23.6	14.6	9.0	6.7
2024	20.2	16.7	16.7	6.0	7.1
2025	20.9	18.7	13.2	8.8	6.6

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

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

First language		Share
Croatian		93.8
Italian		1.6
Serbian		1.4
Chakavian		1.1

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, Croatia 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	Croatia Nationality	Share of national
Seoul	31	34.1
Ulsan	16	17.6
Gyeonggi-do	14	15.4
Gyeongsangnam-do	10	11.0
Busan	7	7.7
Gwangju	3	3.3
Incheon	3	3.3
Gyeongsangbuk-do	2	2.2
Jeollanam-do	2	2.2
Gangwon-do	1	1.1
Daejeon	1	1.1
Sejong	1	1.1