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Registered foreigners are counted across 192 nationalities.

Madagascar

People registered with Madagascar nationality number 61, which is less than 0.1% of all registered foreigners and ranks 126 in size. Compared with 18 in 2015, 10 years earlier, that is an increase of about 238.9%. They live in 30 districts, and the largest counts are Seoul Seodaemun-gu with 11, Gyeonggi-do Suwon-si Yeongtong-gu with 5, and Gyeongsangbuk-do Gyeongsan-si with 5. The largest age group is 25-29 at 25.7%, and men are 31.4%. This value alone is based on staying foreigners. Estimated mother tongues are Malagasy at 43.5% and Merina Malagasy at 40.3%.

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	Madagascar	All registered foreigners	Relative to total
Registered foreigners	61	1,604,920	under 0.1% of the total
Districts of residence	30	250	12.0% 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.Madagascar 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	Madagascar	Vietnam
2006	1	52,157
2007	0	67,197
2008	0	79,848
2009	0	86,166
2010	2	98,225
2011	6	110,564
2012	7	114,211
2013	9	113,843
2014	13	122,571
2015	18	128,042
2016	25	137,769
2017	22	151,385
2018	21	170,707
2019	29	187,334
2020	20	181,415
2021	28	178,928
2022	26	196,883
2023	33	227,930
2024	55	261,581
2025	61	293,907

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

Year 2025

Rank	District	Madagascar Nationality	Share of local foreigners
1	Seoul Seodaemun-gu	11	0.1
2	Gyeonggi-do Suwon-si Yeongtong-gu	5	0.1
3	Gyeongsangbuk-do Gyeongsan-si	5	0.0
4	Gyeonggi-do Pocheon-si	4	0.0
5	Gyeonggi-do Ansan-si Sangnok-gu	3	0.0
6	Gyeonggi-do Uijeongbu-si	2	0.0
7	Gyeongsangbuk-do Pohang-si Buk-gu	2	0.1
8	Daegu Buk-gu	2	0.0
9	Busan Nam-gu	2	0.0
10	Seoul Yongsan-gu	2	0.0

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

Note: Nationwide, Madagascar 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, %

Year

Rank	District	Madagascar Nationality	Location 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 Madagascar nationality, 2025Unit: persons, %

Year 2025

Visa category	Persons	Share
Student(D2)	25	41.0
General Trainee(D4)	14	23.0
Dependent Family(F3)	7	11.5
Marriage Migration(F6)	7	11.5
Job Seeker(D10)	3	4.9
Religious Worker(D6)	2	3.3
Specially Designated Activities(E7)	1	1.6
Visiting Cohabitation(F1)	1	1.6
Other statuses	1	1.6

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

Note: The rows of this table add to 61, the whole of the Madagascar nationality.

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

Year 2025

Age group	Total	Male	Female	Share
0-4	4	1	3	5.7
5-9	1	1	0	1.4
10-14	1	0	1	1.4
15-19	2	0	2	2.9
20-24	9	3	6	12.9
25-29	18	7	11	25.7
30-34	16	5	11	22.9
35-39	10	3	7	14.3
40-44	4	2	2	5.7
45-49	1	0	1	1.4
50-54	2	0	2	2.9
55-59	0	0	0	0.0
60+	2	0	2	2.9

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

Only this table counts all foreign residents, so it totals 70 rather than the 61 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, 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
2010	50.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2011	33.3	16.7	0.0	0.0	0.0
2012	57.1	0.0	0.0	28.6	0.0
2013	55.6	0.0	0.0	33.3	0.0
2014	46.2	15.4	7.7	23.1	0.0
2015	55.6	5.6	0.0	16.7	5.6
2016	52.0	4.0	4.0	12.0	4.0
2017	50.0	0.0	9.1	18.2	0.0
2018	33.3	4.8	14.3	14.3	4.8
2019	31.0	10.3	20.7	13.8	0.0
2020	45.0	10.0	5.0	25.0	0.0
2021	39.3	10.7	7.1	17.9	3.6
2022	50.0	11.5	7.7	15.4	0.0
2023	51.5	15.2	6.1	15.2	0.0
2024	47.3	18.2	9.1	14.5	1.8
2025	41.0	23.0	11.5	11.5	4.9

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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Year	Index of dissimilarity (D)	Isolation index	Interaction with Koreans

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

First language		Share
Malagasy		43.5
Merina Malagasy		40.3
Tesaka Malagasy		6.1
Tanosy Malagasy		3.4
Masikoro Malagasy		2.9
Antankarana Malagasy		0.8
Malagasy Sign Language		0.7
Réunion French Creole		0.6

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, Madagascar 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	Madagascar Nationality	Share of national
Seoul	19	31.1
Gyeonggi-do	16	26.2
Gyeongsangbuk-do	7	11.5
Jeollabuk-do	6	9.8
Busan	3	4.9
Incheon	3	4.9
Daegu	2	3.3
Sejong	2	3.3
Gangwon-do	1	1.6
Daejeon	1	1.6
Jeju-do	1	1.6