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Registered foreigners are counted across 192 nationalities.

Turkmenistan

People registered with Turkmenistan nationality number 695, which is less than 0.1% of all registered foreigners and ranks 59 in size. Compared with 57 in 2015, 10 years earlier, that is an increase of about 1119.3%. They live in 92 districts, and the largest counts are Gyeongsangbuk-do Gyeongju-si with 137, Incheon Yeonsu-gu with 71, and Chungcheongnam-do Asan-si with 66. The index of dissimilarity (D) from Koreans is 0.658, the isolation index is 0, and interaction with Koreans is 0.946. The highest location quotient (LQ) is in Gyeongsangbuk-do Gyeongju-si at 41.3, where this nationality is 0.1% of the foreigners in that district. The continent of origin is Central Asia. The largest age group is 30-34 at 16.3%, and men are 59.1%. This value alone is based on staying foreigners. Estimated mother tongues are Turkmen at 70.6% and Russian at 12.9%.

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	Turkmenistan	All registered foreigners	Relative to total
Registered foreigners	695	1,604,920	under 0.1% of the total
Districts of residence	92	250	36.8% of the total
Index of dissimilarity (D)	0.658	0.280	rank 34 of 107
Isolation index	0.0002	0.045	rank 37 of 107
Interaction with Koreans	0.946	0.955	rank 96 of 107
Continent	Central Asia	103,943 (6.5% of the total)	0.7% 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.Turkmenistan 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	Turkmenistan	Vietnam
2006	9	52,157
2007	10	67,197
2008	11	79,848
2009	16	86,166
2010	19	98,225
2011	19	110,564
2012	32	114,211
2013	36	113,843
2014	48	122,571
2015	57	128,042
2016	71	137,769
2017	86	151,385
2018	140	170,707
2019	294	187,334
2020	283	181,415
2021	244	178,928
2022	240	196,883
2023	374	227,930
2024	522	261,581
2025	695	293,907

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

Year 2025

Rank	District	Turkmenistan Nationality	Share of local foreigners
1	Gyeongsangbuk-do Gyeongju-si	137	0.9
2	Incheon Yeonsu-gu	71	0.4
3	Chungcheongnam-do Asan-si	66	0.3
4	Chungcheongbuk-do Cheongju-si Heungdeok-gu	31	0.4
5	Gyeonggi-do Pyeongtaek-si	24	0.1
6	Seoul Yongsan-gu	23	0.2
7	Gyeonggi-do Ansan-si Sangnok-gu	22	0.1
8	Gyeonggi-do Ansan-si Danwon-gu	21	0.1
9	Chungcheongbuk-do Jincheon-gun	14	0.2
10	Jeollanam-do Yeongam-gun	13	0.1

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

Note: Nationwide, Turkmenistan 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	Turkmenistan Nationality	Location quotient (LQ)	Share of local foreigners
1	Gyeongsangbuk-do Gyeongju-si	137	41.3	0.1
2	Jeollanam-do Yeongam-gun	13	19.1	0.0
3	Chungcheongnam-do Asan-si	66	13.5	0.0
4	Incheon Yeonsu-gu	71	12.8	0.0
5	Chungcheongbuk-do Jincheon-gun	14	11.9	0.0
6	Seoul Yongsan-gu	23	8.4	0.0
7	Chungcheongbuk-do Cheongju-si Heungdeok-gu	31	7.8	0.0
8	Gyeonggi-do Ansan-si Danwon-gu	21	5.3	0.0
9	Jeollanam-do Sinan-gun	3	5.3	0.0
10	Gyeonggi-do Ansan-si Sangnok-gu	22	5.0	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 Turkmenistan nationality, 2025Unit: persons, %

Year 2025

Visa category	Persons	Share
Other(G1)	293	42.2
Dependent Family(F3)	140	20.1
Student(D2)	67	9.6
Visiting Cohabitation(F1)	64	9.2
General Trainee(D4)	34	4.9
Other statuses(ETC)	28	4.0
Permanent Residence(F5)	19	2.7
Residential(F2)	17	2.4
Other statuses	33	4.7

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

Note: The rows of this table add to 695, the whole of the Turkmenistan nationality.

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

Year 2025

Age group	Total	Male	Female	Share
0-4	47	22	25	3.2
5-9	59	32	27	4.0
10-14	80	47	33	5.4
15-19	84	42	42	5.7
20-24	134	77	57	9.0
25-29	181	101	80	12.2
30-34	241	165	76	16.3
35-39	227	155	72	15.3
40-44	173	108	65	11.7
45-49	115	65	50	7.8
50-54	63	29	34	4.3
55-59	38	17	21	2.6
60+	39	15	24	2.6

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

Only this table counts all foreign residents, so it totals 1,481 rather than the 695 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	18.2	0.0	0.0
2009	0.0	6.3	37.5	0.0	12.5
2010	0.0	0.0	21.1	0.0	36.8
2011	0.0	0.0	68.4	0.0	5.3
2012	0.0	3.1	50.0	0.0	25.0
2013	0.0	2.8	52.8	0.0	25.0
2014	0.0	0.0	48.6	0.0	20.0
2015	0.0	0.0	59.1	0.0	18.2
2016	0.0	3.4	53.4	0.0	22.4
2017	0.0	0.0	46.5	2.3	12.8
2018	0.0	0.0	32.1	11.4	6.4
2019	0.0	1.7	15.0	22.1	6.1
2020	0.0	0.0	14.5	23.3	3.2
2021	0.0	0.0	12.7	27.9	2.5
2022	0.0	0.0	15.4	30.4	10.0
2023	24.6	4.0	13.9	30.5	3.5
2024	34.3	14.0	11.1	19.2	3.6
2025	42.2	20.1	9.6	9.2	4.9

Figure 4.Residential segregation and exposure over time, 2018–2025Unit: 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
2018	0.712	0.955
2019	0.736	0.955
2020	0.699	0.959
2021	0.678	0.960
2022	0.682	0.959
2023	0.648	0.958
2024	0.634	0.953
2025	0.658	0.946

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

First language		Share
Turkmen		70.6
Russian		12.9
Uzbek		9.6
Kazakh		2.1
Tatar		1.0
Azerbaijani		0.7
Balochi		0.6
Armenian		0.6

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, Turkmenistan 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	Turkmenistan Nationality	Share of national
Gyeongsangbuk-do	154	22.2
Gyeonggi-do	107	15.4
Incheon	90	12.9
Seoul	89	12.8
Chungcheongnam-do	82	11.8
Chungcheongbuk-do	56	8.1
Jeollanam-do	24	3.5
Gyeongsangnam-do	18	2.6
Daejeon	15	2.2
Gangwon-do	12	1.7
Daegu	12	1.7
Busan	12	1.7
Gwangju	10	1.4
Ulsan	8	1.2
Jeju-do	4	0.6
Jeollabuk-do	2	0.3