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Registered foreigners are counted across 192 nationalities.

Peru

People registered with Peru nationality number 510, which is less than 0.1% of all registered foreigners and ranks 70 in size. Compared with 288 in 2015, 10 years earlier, that is an increase of about 77.1%. They live in 128 districts, and the largest counts are Seoul Jung-gu with 41, Seoul Yongsan-gu with 35, and Seoul Seongbuk-gu with 29. The index of dissimilarity (D) from Koreans is 0.459, the isolation index is 0, and interaction with Koreans is 0.96. The highest location quotient (LQ) is in Seoul Jung-gu at 35.2, where this nationality is 0% of the foreigners in that district. The continent of origin is Latin America. The largest age group is 30-34 at 16.3%, and men are 44.2%. This value alone is based on staying foreigners. Estimated mother tongues are Spanish at 83.2% and Cusco Quechua at 4.8%.

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	Peru	All registered foreigners	Relative to total
Registered foreigners	510	1,604,920	under 0.1% of the total
Districts of residence	128	250	51.2% of the total
Index of dissimilarity (D)	0.459	0.280	rank 82 of 107
Isolation index	0.0001	0.045	rank 54 of 107
Interaction with Koreans	0.960	0.955	rank 39 of 107
Continent	Latin America	5,017 (0.3% of the total)	10.2% of those from Latin America

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.Peru 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	Peru	Vietnam
2006	315	52,157
2007	275	67,197
2008	247	79,848
2009	232	86,166
2010	236	98,225
2011	222	110,564
2012	222	114,211
2013	245	113,843
2014	252	122,571
2015	288	128,042
2016	286	137,769
2017	277	151,385
2018	302	170,707
2019	342	187,334
2020	359	181,415
2021	392	178,928
2022	472	196,883
2023	448	227,930
2024	462	261,581
2025	510	293,907

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

Year 2025

Rank	District	Peru Nationality	Share of local foreigners
1	Seoul Jung-gu	41	0.4
2	Seoul Yongsan-gu	35	0.3
3	Seoul Seongbuk-gu	29	0.2
4	Seoul Gwanak-gu	18	0.1
5	Seoul Seodaemun-gu	17	0.1
6	Seoul Dongjak-gu	15	0.1
7	Seoul Mapo-gu	12	0.1
8	Busan Busanjin-gu	10	0.3
9	Incheon Yeonsu-gu	10	0.1
10	Gyeonggi-do Bucheon-si	9	0.0

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

Note: Nationwide, Peru nationals make up 0.0% 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	Peru Nationality	Location quotient (LQ)
1	Seoul Jung-gu	41	35.2
2	Seoul Yongsan-gu	35	17.5
3	Gyeongsangbuk-do Cheongdo-gun	4	10.1
4	Gyeonggi-do Dongducheon-si	8	9.3
5	Seoul Seongbuk-gu	29	6.9
6	Seoul Seodaemun-gu	17	5.7
7	Busan Yeongdo-gu	5	5.0
8	Daegu Seo-gu	7	4.3
9	Gyeongsangnam-do Miryang-si	4	4.1
10	Seoul Dongjak-gu	15	4.1

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 Peru nationality, 2025Unit: persons, %

Year 2025

Visa category	Persons	Share
Marriage Migration(F6)	159	31.2
Other statuses(ETC)	90	17.6
Student(D2)	76	14.9
General Trainee(D4)	40	7.8
Other(G1)	34	6.7
Residential(F2)	19	3.7
Dependent Family(F3)	16	3.1
Specially Designated Activities(E7)	15	2.9
Other statuses	61	12.0

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

Note: The rows of this table add to 510, the whole of the Peru nationality.

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

Year 2025

Age group	Total	Male	Female	Share
0-4	10	6	4	1.0
5-9	18	10	8	1.8
10-14	26	14	12	2.6
15-19	36	14	22	3.6
20-24	97	32	65	9.8
25-29	154	58	96	15.5
30-34	162	49	113	16.3
35-39	121	55	66	12.2
40-44	67	35	32	6.7
45-49	65	39	26	6.5
50-54	91	43	48	9.2
55-59	70	37	33	7.0
60+	76	47	29	7.7

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

Only this table counts all foreign residents, so it totals 993 rather than the 510 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	0.0	5.7	1.6	0.0	0.0
2009	0.0	8.6	0.0	2.2	0.0
2010	0.0	9.7	7.6	3.0	0.0
2011	0.0	10.8	10.8	3.6	0.0
2012	24.8	13.5	13.1	5.9	0.0
2013	31.0	11.0	14.7	7.8	0.0
2014	33.3	10.4	18.9	8.8	0.0
2015	32.9	8.9	25.2	9.3	0.0
2016	32.8	9.5	25.2	11.1	0.0
2017	33.9	10.8	21.7	7.6	0.0
2018	33.1	16.6	20.9	6.3	0.0
2019	31.0	18.4	21.1	5.0	2.6
2020	31.8	22.0	15.9	4.7	4.2
2021	29.3	22.7	17.3	6.4	0.0
2022	27.1	19.7	19.7	8.3	3.2
2023	31.3	15.8	18.8	7.1	5.6
2024	32.3	15.6	16.2	8.9	6.1
2025	31.2	17.6	14.9	7.8	6.7

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)	Interaction with Koreans
2014	0.491	0.976
2015	0.500	0.974
2016	0.483	0.975
2017	0.472	0.972
2018	0.491	0.969
2019	0.501	0.966
2020	0.508	0.969
2021	0.503	0.968
2022	0.488	0.967
2023	0.491	0.966
2024	0.484	0.962
2025	0.459	0.960

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

First language		Share
Spanish		83.2
Cusco Quechua		4.8
Ayacucho Quechua		2.9
Puno Quechua		1.6
Aymara		1.4
Huaylla Wanca Quechua		0.8
Northern Conchucos Ancash Quechua		0.8
Southern Conchucos Quechua		0.8

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, Peru 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	Peru Nationality	Share of national
Seoul	217	42.5
Gyeonggi-do	95	18.6
Busan	32	6.3
Incheon	27	5.3
Gyeongsangnam-do	25	4.9
Daegu	20	3.9
Chungcheongnam-do	15	2.9
Gyeongsangbuk-do	12	2.4
Chungcheongbuk-do	12	2.4
Daejeon	11	2.2
Jeollanam-do	11	2.2
Ulsan	8	1.6
Gangwon-do	7	1.4
Jeollabuk-do	6	1.2
Gwangju	5	1.0
Sejong	4	0.8
Jeju-do	3	0.6