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Registered foreigners are counted across 192 nationalities.

North Macedonia

People registered with North Macedonia nationality number 11, which is less than 0.1% of all registered foreigners and ranks 165 in size. Compared with 6 in 2015, 10 years earlier, that is an increase of about 83.3%. They live in 8 districts, and the largest counts are Incheon Yeonsu-gu with 4, Gyeonggi-do Gwangju-si with 1, and Daegu Dong-gu with 1. The largest age group is 45-49 at 25%, and men are 66.7%. This value alone is based on staying foreigners. Estimated mother tongues are Macedonian at 66.4% and Albanian at 25.2%.

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
IndicatorsNorth MacedoniaAll registered foreignersRelative to total
Registered foreigners111,604,920under 0.1% of the total
Districts of residence82503.2% 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.North Macedonia 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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YearNorth MacedoniaVietnam
2006252,157
2007467,197
2008579,848
2009986,166
2010898,225
20119110,564
20127114,211
20135113,843
20146122,571
20156128,042
201611137,769
20179151,385
201811170,707
20198187,334
20208181,415
202112178,928
202214196,883
20239227,930
202414261,581
202511293,907
Table 2.North Macedonia nationality, top 10 districts, 2025Unit: persons, %
2025
RankDistrictNorth Macedonia NationalityShare of local foreigners
1Incheon Yeonsu-gu40.0
2Gyeonggi-do Gwangju-si10.0
3Daegu Dong-gu10.0
4Seoul Gangdong-gu10.0
5Seoul Gangbuk-gu10.0
6Seoul Mapo-gu10.0
7Seoul Seongdong-gu10.0
8Incheon Namdong-gu10.0

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

Note: Nationwide, North Macedonia 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, %
RankDistrictNorth Macedonia 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 North Macedonia nationality, 2025Unit: persons, %
2025
Visa categoryPersonsShare
Marriage Migration(F6)436.4
Visiting Cohabitation(F1)327.3
Student(D2)19.1
Specially Designated Activities(E7)19.1
Residential(F2)19.1
Other statuses(ETC)19.1

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

Note: The rows of this table add to 11, the whole of the North Macedonia nationality.

Table 5.Age and sex, 2025Unit: persons, %
2025
Age groupTotalMaleFemaleShare
0-40000.0
5-90000.0
10-141108.3
15-191108.3
20-241018.3
25-2922016.7
30-3420216.7
35-391108.3
40-440000.0
45-4932125.0
50-540000.0
55-591108.3
60+0000.0

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

Only this table counts all foreign residents, so it totals 12 rather than the 11 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, 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
20080.00.00.00.020.0
20090.00.00.00.011.1
20100.00.012.50.012.5
20110.00.00.00.011.1
201214.30.00.00.00.0
201320.00.020.00.00.0
201416.70.016.70.00.0
201516.70.00.00.00.0
201610.010.020.00.00.0
201711.10.033.30.00.0
201827.30.018.29.19.1
201950.00.00.012.50.0
202050.00.00.012.50.0
202133.30.016.78.30.0
202235.70.014.30.07.1
202355.60.011.10.011.1
202428.60.021.40.07.1
202536.427.39.19.19.1
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.North Macedonia nationality, mother-tongue compositionUnit: %
First languageShare
Macedonian66.4
Albanian25.2
Turkish3.5
Romani1.9
Serbian1.2
Aromanian0.9

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, North Macedonia 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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    ProvinceNorth Macedonia NationalityShare of national
    Incheon545.5
    Seoul436.4
    Gyeonggi-do19.1
    Daegu19.1