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Registered foreigners are counted across 192 nationalities.

Libya

People registered with Libya nationality number 832, which is 0.1% of all registered foreigners and ranks 52 in size. Compared with 251 in 2015, 10 years earlier, that is an increase of about 231.5%. They live in 57 districts, and the largest counts are Incheon Yeonsu-gu with 526, Seoul Yongsan-gu with 67, and Incheon Michuhol-gu with 66. The index of dissimilarity (D) from Koreans is 0.843, the isolation index is 0.001, and interaction with Koreans is 0.954. The highest location quotient (LQ) is in Incheon Yeonsu-gu at 78.9, where this nationality is 0.1% of the foreigners in that district. The continent of origin is Africa. The largest age group is 25-29 at 19.5%, and men are 77.5%. This value alone is based on staying foreigners. Estimated mother tongues are Arabic at 92.4% and Nafusi at 3.6%.

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	Libya	All registered foreigners	Relative to total
Registered foreigners	832	1,604,920	0.1% of the total
Districts of residence	57	250	22.8% of the total
Index of dissimilarity (D)	0.843	0.280	rank 3 of 107
Isolation index	0.0008	0.045	rank 24 of 107
Interaction with Koreans	0.954	0.955	rank 66 of 107
Continent	Africa	24,473 (1.5% of the total)	3.4% 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.Libya 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	Libya	Vietnam
2006	28	52,157
2007	31	67,197
2008	35	79,848
2009	71	86,166
2010	98	98,225
2011	91	110,564
2012	120	114,211
2013	216	113,843
2014	271	122,571
2015	251	128,042
2016	231	137,769
2017	224	151,385
2018	291	170,707
2019	383	187,334
2020	433	181,415
2021	506	178,928
2022	677	196,883
2023	723	227,930
2024	778	261,581
2025	832	293,907

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

Year 2025

Rank	District	Libya Nationality	Share of local foreigners
1	Incheon Yeonsu-gu	526	2.8
2	Seoul Yongsan-gu	67	0.5
3	Incheon Michuhol-gu	66	0.4
4	Incheon Seo-gu	28	0.2
5	Seoul Dongdaemun-gu	17	0.1
6	Chungcheongbuk-do Eumseong-gun	10	0.1
7	Gyeonggi-do Goyang-si Ilsanseo-gu	9	0.2
8	Gyeongsangnam-do Geoje-si	9	0.1
9	Ulsan Dong-gu	7	0.1
10	Gyeonggi-do Gimpo-si	6	0.0

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

Note: Nationwide, Libya 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	Libya Nationality	Location quotient (LQ)	Share of local foreigners
1	Incheon Yeonsu-gu	526	78.9	0.1
2	Seoul Yongsan-gu	67	20.4	0.0
3	Incheon Michuhol-gu	66	9.7	0.0
4	Chungcheongbuk-do Eumseong-gun	10	6.5	0.0
5	Seoul Dongdaemun-gu	17	3.0	0.0
6	Ulsan Dong-gu	7	2.9	0.0
7	Incheon Seo-gu	28	2.6	0.0
8	Gyeongsangnam-do Geoje-si	9	2.4	0.0
9	Incheon Jung-gu	6	2.1	0.0
10	Gyeonggi-do Goyang-si Ilsanseo-gu	9	2.0	0.0

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 Libya nationality, 2025Unit: persons, %

Year 2025

Visa category	Persons	Share
Dependent Family(F3)	285	34.3
Other(G1)	226	27.2
Corporate Investment(D8)	176	21.2
Other statuses(ETC)	65	7.8
Residential(F2)	18	2.2
Visiting Cohabitation(F1)	16	1.9
Student(D2)	13	1.6
Permanent Residence(F5)	11	1.3
Other statuses	22	2.6

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

Note: The rows of this table add to 832, the whole of the Libya nationality.

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

Year 2025

Age group	Total	Male	Female	Share
0-4	101	47	54	9.1
5-9	77	44	33	6.9
10-14	59	32	27	5.3
15-19	32	25	7	2.9
20-24	151	124	27	13.5
25-29	217	187	30	19.5
30-34	174	152	22	15.6
35-39	98	78	20	8.8
40-44	82	71	11	7.4
45-49	49	45	4	4.4
50-54	38	29	9	3.4
55-59	22	19	3	2.0
60+	15	11	4	1.3

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

Only this table counts all foreign residents, so it totals 1,115 rather than the 832 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	45.7	0.0	45.7	0.0	5.7
2009	39.4	0.0	56.3	0.0	2.8
2010	50.0	0.0	45.9	0.0	2.0
2011	53.8	3.3	37.4	0.0	2.2
2012	56.7	3.3	35.0	0.0	0.8
2013	66.7	1.4	10.2	0.0	0.0
2014	63.5	4.9	9.9	0.0	0.0
2015	56.2	5.6	14.6	1.7	1.7
2016	51.3	9.4	18.3	2.1	2.6
2017	37.9	5.8	16.1	22.8	2.2
2018	39.9	5.5	14.1	22.3	3.1
2019	42.6	7.0	14.6	20.6	3.1
2020	40.9	13.4	13.6	20.3	3.2
2021	40.1	12.3	19.6	15.6	3.8
2022	35.9	13.0	27.9	12.1	2.7
2023	33.6	21.7	25.6	8.6	2.6
2024	34.2	23.0	23.9	8.7	2.6
2025	34.3	27.2	21.2	7.8	2.2

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	0.918	0.000	0.979
2015	0.885	0.000	0.975
2016	0.866	0.000	0.968
2017	0.889	0.000	0.963
2018	0.899	0.000	0.961
2019	0.881	0.000	0.961
2020	0.865	0.000	0.965
2021	0.856	0.000	0.966
2022	0.857	0.001	0.963
2023	0.869	0.001	0.959
2024	0.866	0.001	0.956
2025	0.843	0.001	0.954

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

First language		Share
Arabic		92.4
Nafusi		3.6
Punjabi		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, Libya 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	Libya Nationality	Share of national
Incheon	627	75.4
Seoul	95	11.4
Gyeonggi-do	40	4.8
Gyeongsangnam-do	15	1.8
Chungcheongbuk-do	12	1.4
Gyeongsangbuk-do	11	1.3
Ulsan	10	1.2
Jeollanam-do	6	0.7
Chungcheongnam-do	6	0.7
Jeollabuk-do	4	0.5
Busan	3	0.4
Gwangju	1	0.1
Daejeon	1	0.1
Jeju-do	1	0.1