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Registered foreigners are counted across 192 nationalities.

Trinidad and Tobago

People registered with Trinidad and Tobago nationality number 31, which is less than 0.1% of all registered foreigners and ranks 143 in size. Compared with 13 in 2015, 10 years earlier, that is an increase of about 138.5%. They live in 21 districts, and the largest counts are Incheon Yeonsu-gu with 7, Daejeon Yuseong-gu with 2, and Seoul Dongdaemun-gu with 2. The largest age group is 25-29 at 26.7%, and men are 33.3%. This value alone is based on staying foreigners. Estimated mother tongues are English at 49.5% and Trinidadian English Creole at 38.1%.

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
IndicatorsTrinidad and TobagoAll registered foreignersRelative to total
Registered foreigners311,604,920under 0.1% of the total
Districts of residence212508.4% 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.Trinidad and Tobago 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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YearTrinidad and TobagoVietnam
2006352,157
2007267,197
2008379,848
2009386,166
2010598,225
20113110,564
20124114,211
201310113,843
201413122,571
201513128,042
201611137,769
201713151,385
201823170,707
201922187,334
202017181,415
202120178,928
202221196,883
202327227,930
202425261,581
202531293,907
Table 2.Trinidad and Tobago nationality, top 10 districts, 2025Unit: persons, %
2025
RankDistrictTrinidad and Tobago NationalityShare of local foreigners
1Incheon Yeonsu-gu70.0
2Daejeon Yuseong-gu20.0
3Seoul Dongdaemun-gu20.0
4Seoul Mapo-gu20.0
5Ulsan Dong-gu20.0
6Gyeonggi-do Yongin-si Giheung-gu10.0
7Gyeonggi-do Pyeongtaek-si10.0
8Gyeongsangnam-do Gimhae-si10.0
9Gyeongsangnam-do Jinju-si10.0
10Gyeongsangbuk-do Pohang-si Buk-gu10.0

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

Note: Nationwide, Trinidad and Tobago 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, %
RankDistrictTrinidad and Tobago 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 Trinidad and Tobago nationality, 2025Unit: persons, %
2025
Visa categoryPersonsShare
Student(D2)929.0
Other statuses(ETC)722.6
General Trainee(D4)412.9
Trade Management(D9)26.5
Job Seeker(D10)26.5
Residential(F2)26.5
Marriage Migration(F6)26.5
Corporate Investment(D8)13.2
Other statuses26.5

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

Note: The rows of this table add to 31, the whole of the Trinidad and Tobago nationality.

Table 5.Age and sex, 2025Unit: persons, %
2025
Age groupTotalMaleFemaleShare
0-41012.2
5-91012.2
10-140000.0
15-192204.4
20-2450511.1
25-29123926.7
30-3461513.3
35-393126.7
40-4483517.8
45-493306.7
50-540000.0
55-590000.0
60+4228.9

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

Only this table counts all foreign residents, so it totals 45 rather than the 31 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
20080.00.00.033.30.0
20090.00.00.00.00.0
20100.00.00.080.00.0
20110.00.00.066.70.0
20120.00.00.050.00.0
20130.00.020.030.00.0
20147.70.023.130.80.0
201523.10.038.57.70.0
201645.50.027.30.00.0
201746.20.07.70.07.7
201834.88.713.08.74.3
201950.04.513.69.14.5
202058.85.95.95.90.0
202150.00.020.00.05.0
202238.10.014.30.09.5
202333.318.511.10.03.7
202420.020.028.04.00.0
202529.022.612.96.56.5
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.Trinidad and Tobago nationality, mother-tongue compositionUnit: %
First languageShare
English49.5
Trinidadian English Creole38.1
Tobagonian English Creole11.4
Sarnami Hindustani0.6

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, Trinidad and Tobago 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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    ProvinceTrinidad and Tobago NationalityShare of national
    Seoul929.0
    Incheon825.8
    Gyeonggi-do26.5
    Gyeongsangnam-do26.5
    Daegu26.5
    Daejeon26.5
    Ulsan26.5
    Gyeongsangbuk-do13.2
    Jeju-do13.2
    Chungcheongnam-do13.2
    Chungcheongbuk-do13.2