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Registered foreigners are counted across 192 nationalities.

Nigeria

People registered with Nigeria nationality number 2,649, which is 0.2% of all registered foreigners and ranks 33 in size. Compared with 1,847 in 2015, 10 years earlier, that is an increase of about 43.4%. They live in 151 districts, and the largest counts are Gyeonggi-do Dongducheon-si with 528, Seoul Yongsan-gu with 439, and Gyeonggi-do Pyeongtaek-si with 246. The index of dissimilarity (D) from Koreans is 0.619, the isolation index is 0.002, and interaction with Koreans is 0.952. The highest location quotient (LQ) is in Gyeonggi-do Dongducheon-si at 118.3, where this nationality is 0.6% of the foreigners in that district. The continent of origin is Africa. The largest age group is 35-39 at 13.1%, and men are 74.9%. This value alone is based on staying foreigners. Estimated mother tongues are Yoruba at 22.4% and Hausa at 20%.

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	Nigeria	All registered foreigners	Relative to total
Registered foreigners	2,649	1,604,920	0.2% of the total
Districts of residence	151	250	60.4% of the total
Index of dissimilarity (D)	0.619	0.280	rank 40 of 107
Isolation index	0.0016	0.045	rank 18 of 107
Interaction with Koreans	0.952	0.955	rank 77 of 107
Continent	Africa	24,473 (1.5% of the total)	10.8% 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.Nigeria 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	Nigeria	Vietnam
2006	913	52,157
2007	1,225	67,197
2008	1,195	79,848
2009	1,239	86,166
2010	1,284	98,225
2011	1,230	110,564
2012	1,367	114,211
2013	1,482	113,843
2014	1,680	122,571
2015	1,847	128,042
2016	2,033	137,769
2017	2,145	151,385
2018	2,185	170,707
2019	2,306	187,334
2020	2,362	181,415
2021	2,431	178,928
2022	2,522	196,883
2023	2,492	227,930
2024	2,566	261,581
2025	2,649	293,907

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

Year 2025

Rank	District	Nigeria Nationality	Share of local foreigners
1	Gyeonggi-do Dongducheon-si	528	11.9
2	Seoul Yongsan-gu	439	3.4
3	Gyeonggi-do Pyeongtaek-si	246	0.7
4	Gyeonggi-do Ansan-si Danwon-gu	107	0.3
5	Daegu Buk-gu	88	1.2
6	Gyeonggi-do Pocheon-si	77	0.5
7	Gyeonggi-do Paju-si	73	0.4
8	Incheon Yeonsu-gu	48	0.3
9	Gyeonggi-do Ansan-si Sangnok-gu	44	0.3
10	Gyeonggi-do Yangju-si	40	0.4

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

Note: Nationwide, Nigeria nationals make up 0.2% 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	Nigeria Nationality	Location quotient (LQ)	Share of local foreigners
1	Gyeonggi-do Dongducheon-si	528	118.3	0.6
2	Seoul Yongsan-gu	439	42.1	0.2
3	Gyeonggi-do Pocheon-si	77	10.6	0.1
4	Gyeonggi-do Pyeongtaek-si	246	7.8	0.0
5	Gyeonggi-do Ansan-si Danwon-gu	107	7.2	0.0
6	Daegu Buk-gu	88	4.2	0.0
7	Daejeon Dong-gu	35	3.1	0.0
8	Daegu Nam-gu	21	3.0	0.0
9	Gyeonggi-do Paju-si	73	2.7	0.0
10	Gyeonggi-do Ansan-si Sangnok-gu	44	2.6	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 Nigeria nationality, 2025Unit: persons, %

Year 2025

Visa category	Persons	Share
Other(G1)	649	24.5
Other statuses(ETC)	488	18.4
Dependent Family(F3)	424	16.0
Student(D2)	313	11.8
Marriage Migration(F6)	155	5.9
General Trainee(D4)	112	4.2
Corporate Investment(D8)	105	4.0
Trade Management(D9)	103	3.9
Other statuses	300	11.3

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

Note: The rows of this table add to 2,649, the whole of the Nigeria nationality.

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

Year 2025

Age group	Total	Male	Female	Share
0-4	174	87	87	5.8
5-9	150	87	63	5.0
10-14	106	56	50	3.5
15-19	90	50	40	3.0
20-24	101	50	51	3.4
25-29	190	96	94	6.3
30-34	320	209	111	10.6
35-39	394	312	82	13.1
40-44	360	302	58	11.9
45-49	326	272	54	10.8
50-54	312	281	31	10.4
55-59	281	259	22	9.3
60+	209	195	14	6.9

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

Only this table counts all foreign residents, so it totals 3,013 rather than the 2,649 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	10.1	2.2	20.6	2.5	0.0
2009	9.4	2.3	25.0	3.5	0.0
2010	8.3	3.3	26.9	4.7	0.0
2011	8.8	3.4	27.1	6.6	0.0
2012	13.4	4.8	25.4	7.6	5.3
2013	24.0	4.0	22.4	7.6	6.8
2014	30.4	4.2	21.9	8.4	6.9
2015	37.1	4.7	21.5	8.7	6.2
2016	42.9	4.8	19.6	8.7	5.8
2017	45.7	2.3	17.2	9.4	5.6
2018	45.1	2.7	16.8	9.7	5.9
2019	41.7	7.2	15.8	11.1	6.1
2020	35.3	16.7	14.9	9.6	6.1
2021	28.8	19.7	15.4	11.8	6.3
2022	24.4	21.1	15.5	13.5	6.3
2023	22.2	20.1	17.0	13.7	6.4
2024	24.2	19.2	16.4	12.3	6.2
2025	24.5	18.4	16.0	11.8	5.9

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	0.732	0.001	0.954
2015	0.743	0.001	0.952
2016	0.734	0.002	0.953
2017	0.731	0.002	0.953
2018	0.688	0.002	0.952
2019	0.677	0.002	0.951
2020	0.684	0.002	0.957
2021	0.676	0.002	0.959
2022	0.666	0.002	0.957
2023	0.650	0.002	0.956
2024	0.648	0.002	0.953
2025	0.619	0.002	0.952

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

First language		Share
Yoruba		22.4
Hausa		20.0
Igbo		17.4
Fula		8.7
Kanuri		4.2
Ibibio		3.3
Tiv		2.4
Anaang		1.5

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, Nigeria 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	Nigeria Nationality	Share of national
Gyeonggi-do	1,292	48.8
Seoul	604	22.8
Daegu	117	4.4
Incheon	98	3.7
Gyeongsangbuk-do	87	3.3
Gwangju	78	2.9
Daejeon	66	2.5
Gyeongsangnam-do	61	2.3
Chungcheongnam-do	49	1.8
Busan	47	1.8
Chungcheongbuk-do	44	1.7
Gangwon-do	36	1.4
Jeollanam-do	21	0.8
Jeollabuk-do	20	0.8
Ulsan	15	0.6
Sejong	9	0.3
Jeju-do	5	0.2