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Registered foreigners are counted across 192 nationalities.

Tajikistan

People registered with Tajikistan nationality number 2,040, which is 0.1% of all registered foreigners and ranks 37 in size. Compared with 205 in 2015, 10 years earlier, that is an increase of about 895.1%. They live in 138 districts, and the largest counts are Incheon Yeonsu-gu with 422, Gyeonggi-do Hwaseong-si with 232, and Gyeongsangnam-do Gimhae-si with 108. The index of dissimilarity (D) from Koreans is 0.582, the isolation index is 0, and interaction with Koreans is 0.957. The highest location quotient (LQ) is in Incheon Yeonsu-gu at 25.9, where this nationality is 0.1% of the foreigners in that district. The continent of origin is Central Asia. The largest age group is 25-29 at 17%, and men are 76%. This value alone is based on staying foreigners. Estimated mother tongues are Tajik at 81.1% and Uzbek at 13.5%.

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	Tajikistan	All registered foreigners	Relative to total
Registered foreigners	2,040	1,604,920	0.1% of the total
Districts of residence	138	250	55.2% of the total
Index of dissimilarity (D)	0.582	0.280	rank 51 of 107
Isolation index	0.0003	0.045	rank 33 of 107
Interaction with Koreans	0.957	0.955	rank 57 of 107
Continent	Central Asia	103,943 (6.5% of the total)	2.0% of those from Central Asia

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.Tajikistan 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	Tajikistan	Vietnam
2006	26	52,157
2007	30	67,197
2008	45	79,848
2009	56	86,166
2010	78	98,225
2011	87	110,564
2012	121	114,211
2013	148	113,843
2014	185	122,571
2015	205	128,042
2016	284	137,769
2017	397	151,385
2018	474	170,707
2019	496	187,334
2020	493	181,415
2021	589	178,928
2022	797	196,883
2023	1,126	227,930
2024	1,567	261,581
2025	2,040	293,907

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

Year 2025

Rank	District	Tajikistan Nationality	Share of local foreigners
1	Incheon Yeonsu-gu	422	2.2
2	Gyeonggi-do Hwaseong-si	232	0.4
3	Gyeongsangnam-do Gimhae-si	108	0.4
4	Gyeongsangbuk-do Gyeongsan-si	70	0.3
5	Gyeonggi-do Yongin-si Cheoin-gu	53	0.4
6	Daegu Dalseo-gu	45	0.3
7	Seoul Yongsan-gu	37	0.3
8	Chungcheongnam-do Asan-si	37	0.1
9	Gyeonggi-do Icheon-si	34	0.3
10	Incheon Jung-gu	33	0.6

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

Note: Nationwide, Tajikistan 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	Tajikistan Nationality	Location quotient (LQ)	Share of local foreigners
1	Incheon Yeonsu-gu	422	25.9	0.1
2	Gangwon-do Sokcho-si	24	7.6	0.0
3	Chungcheongbuk-do Jincheon-gun	24	7.0	0.0
4	Gyeongsangbuk-do Gyeongsan-si	70	6.7	0.0
5	Jeollanam-do Hampyeong-gun	7	6.0	0.0
6	Gyeonggi-do Hwaseong-si	232	5.9	0.0
7	Gyeongsangnam-do Gimhae-si	108	5.1	0.0
8	Gyeonggi-do Yongin-si Cheoin-gu	53	4.7	0.0
9	Incheon Jung-gu	33	4.7	0.0
10	Gyeongsangbuk-do Gimcheon-si	25	4.7	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 Tajikistan nationality, 2025Unit: persons, %

Year 2025

Visa category	Persons	Share
Other(G1)	763	37.4
Dependent Family(F3)	342	16.8
Student(D2)	284	13.9
General Trainee(D4)	127	6.2
Corporate Investment(D8)	97	4.8
Visiting Cohabitation(F1)	96	4.7
Residential(F2)	71	3.5
Visiting Employment(H2)	70	3.4
Other statuses	190	9.3

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

Note: The rows of this table add to 2,040, the whole of the Tajikistan nationality.

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

Year 2025

Age group	Total	Male	Female	Share
0-4	140	62	78	4.3
5-9	103	50	53	3.2
10-14	79	41	38	2.4
15-19	222	164	58	6.9
20-24	514	371	143	15.9
25-29	550	426	124	17.0
30-34	489	429	60	15.1
35-39	490	427	63	15.2
40-44	316	263	53	9.8
45-49	149	114	35	4.6
50-54	71	56	15	2.2
55-59	42	26	16	1.3
60+	65	25	40	2.0

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

Only this table counts all foreign residents, so it totals 3,230 rather than the 2,040 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	0.0	26.7	15.6	6.7
2009	0.0	3.6	23.2	16.1	12.5
2010	0.0	10.3	24.4	24.4	11.5
2011	0.0	6.9	33.3	18.4	6.9
2012	0.0	4.1	27.3	15.7	6.6
2013	0.0	6.8	26.4	13.5	0.0
2014	0.0	8.1	23.2	11.4	0.0
2015	0.0	8.3	24.4	12.2	0.0
2016	8.3	6.2	18.1	10.1	0.0
2017	6.3	8.6	15.6	12.1	0.0
2018	6.1	8.6	15.2	11.2	0.0
2019	6.3	8.7	16.7	10.9	0.0
2020	4.5	7.5	18.7	10.1	0.0
2021	6.1	12.6	16.5	7.8	6.1
2022	9.8	15.2	16.9	8.4	8.0
2023	18.6	17.8	15.5	9.1	6.7
2024	31.3	16.6	13.2	8.3	5.3
2025	37.4	16.8	13.9	6.2	4.8

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	0.690	0.966
2015	0.679	0.966
2016	0.675	0.960
2017	0.652	0.963
2018	0.639	0.959
2019	0.636	0.959
2020	0.624	0.963
2021	0.614	0.966
2022	0.573	0.966
2023	0.567	0.962
2024	0.583	0.958
2025	0.582	0.957

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

First language		Share
Tajik		81.1
Uzbek		13.5
Persian/Farsi		1.1
Kyrgyz		0.9
Russian		0.7
Russian Sign Language		0.6
Shughni		0.5

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, Tajikistan 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	Tajikistan Nationality	Share of national
Incheon	513	25.1
Gyeonggi-do	508	24.9
Seoul	183	9.0
Gyeongsangnam-do	135	6.6
Gyeongsangbuk-do	131	6.4
Daegu	100	4.9
Chungcheongnam-do	86	4.2
Gangwon-do	68	3.3
Jeollabuk-do	57	2.8
Chungcheongbuk-do	56	2.7
Busan	45	2.2
Daejeon	39	1.9
Gwangju	36	1.8
Jeollanam-do	33	1.6
Ulsan	31	1.5
Jeju-do	10	0.5
Sejong	9	0.4