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Registered foreigners are counted across 192 nationalities.

Djibouti

People registered with Djibouti nationality number 3, which is less than 0.1% of all registered foreigners and ranks 185 in size. They live in 1 district, and the largest count is Gyeongsangnam-do Geoje-si with 3. The largest age group is 60+ at 50%, and men are 66.7%. This value alone is based on staying foreigners. Estimated mother tongues are Somali at 61.4% and Afar at 20.5%.

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
2025
IndicatorsDjiboutiAll registered foreignersRelative to total
Registered foreigners31,604,920under 0.1% of the total
Districts of residence12500.4% 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.Djibouti 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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YearDjiboutiVietnam
2006052,157
2007067,197
2008079,848
2009086,166
2010198,225
20110110,564
20120114,211
20130113,843
20140122,571
20150128,042
20161137,769
20170151,385
20180170,707
20191187,334
20201181,415
20211178,928
20221196,883
20231227,930
20244261,581
20253293,907
Table 2.Djibouti nationality, top 10 districts, 2025Unit: persons, %
2025
RankDistrictDjibouti NationalityShare of local foreigners
1Gyeongsangnam-do Geoje-si30.0

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

Note: Nationwide, Djibouti nationality is 18.3% of all registered foreigners, so a district where the share among its foreigners is above this has relatively many of them.

Table 3.10 districts with the highest location quotient, 2025Unit: people, ratio, %
RankDistrictDjibouti NationalityLocation quotient (LQ)Share of local foreigners

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 Djibouti nationality, 2025Unit: persons, %
2025
Visa categoryPersonsShare
Other(G1)3100.0

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

Note: The rows of this table add to 3, the whole of the Djibouti nationality.

Table 5.Age and sex, 2025Unit: persons, %
2025
Age groupTotalMaleFemaleShare
0-40000.0
5-921133.3
10-140000.0
15-190000.0
20-240000.0
25-290000.0
30-3410116.7
35-390000.0
40-440000.0
45-490000.0
50-540000.0
55-590000.0
60+33050.0

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

Only this table counts all foreign residents, so it totals 6 rather than the 3 registered foreigners

Figure 2.Composition by age and sex, 2025Unit: %
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, 2010–2025Unit: %

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
20100.0
20110.0
20120.0
20130.0
20140.0
20150.0
20160.0
20170.0
20180.0
20190.0
20200.0
20210.0
20220.0
20230.0
202475.0
2025100.0
Figure 4.Residential segregation and exposure over time, Unit: 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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YearIndex of dissimilarity (D)Isolation indexInteraction with Koreans
Table 6.Djibouti nationality, mother-tongue compositionUnit: %
First languageShare
Somali61.4
Afar20.5
Arabic15.6
French2.2

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, Djibouti nationality, 2025Unit: persons
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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    ProvinceDjibouti NationalityShare of national
    Gyeongsangnam-do3100.0