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Registered foreigners are counted across 192 nationalities.

Yemen

People registered with Yemen nationality number 1,234, which is 0.1% of all registered foreigners and ranks 46 in size. Compared with 282 in 2015, 10 years earlier, that is an increase of about 337.6%. They live in 95 districts, and the largest counts are Incheon Yeonsu-gu with 411, Incheon Michuhol-gu with 77, and Jeollanam-do Yeongam-gun with 73. The index of dissimilarity (D) from Koreans is 0.699, the isolation index is 0.001, and interaction with Koreans is 0.949. The highest location quotient (LQ) is in Jeollanam-do Yeongam-gun at 60.4, where this nationality is 0.1% of the foreigners in that district. The continent of origin is West Asia. The largest age group is 35-39 at 18.8%, and men are 75.4%. This value alone is based on staying foreigners. Estimated mother tongues are Arabic at 96.2% and Somali at 1.5%.

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	Yemen	All registered foreigners	Relative to total
Registered foreigners	1,234	1,604,920	0.1% of the total
Districts of residence	95	250	38.0% of the total
Index of dissimilarity (D)	0.699	0.280	rank 23 of 107
Isolation index	0.0005	0.045	rank 29 of 107
Interaction with Koreans	0.949	0.955	rank 85 of 107
Continent	West Asia	11,391 (0.7% of the total)	10.8% of those from West 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.Yemen 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	Yemen	Vietnam
2006	14	52,157
2007	17	67,197
2008	20	79,848
2009	20	86,166
2010	35	98,225
2011	54	110,564
2012	58	114,211
2013	98	113,843
2014	230	122,571
2015	282	128,042
2016	355	137,769
2017	454	151,385
2018	1,017	170,707
2019	1,036	187,334
2020	1,044	181,415
2021	1,059	178,928
2022	1,098	196,883
2023	1,172	227,930
2024	1,200	261,581
2025	1,234	293,907

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

Year 2025

Rank	District	Yemen Nationality	Share of local foreigners
1	Incheon Yeonsu-gu	411	2.2
2	Incheon Michuhol-gu	77	0.5
3	Jeollanam-do Yeongam-gun	73	0.7
4	Jeollabuk-do Iksan-si	71	1.0
5	Chungcheongbuk-do Chungju-si	53	0.8
6	Gyeongsangbuk-do Chilgok-gun	47	0.8
7	Jeju-do Jeju-si	27	0.1
8	Gyeonggi-do Ansan-si Danwon-gu	23	0.1
9	Gyeongsangbuk-do Gimcheon-si	21	0.5
10	Gyeonggi-do Gimpo-si	20	0.1

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

Note: Nationwide, Yemen 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	Yemen Nationality	Location quotient (LQ)	Share of local foreigners
1	Jeollanam-do Yeongam-gun	73	60.4	0.1
2	Incheon Yeonsu-gu	411	41.6	0.1
3	Gyeongsangbuk-do Chilgok-gun	47	18.6	0.0
4	Jeollabuk-do Iksan-si	71	11.0	0.0
5	Chungcheongbuk-do Chungju-si	53	10.6	0.0
6	Incheon Michuhol-gu	77	7.6	0.0
7	Gyeongsangbuk-do Gimcheon-si	21	6.5	0.0
8	Chungcheongbuk-do Eumseong-gun	13	5.7	0.0
9	Gyeonggi-do Pocheon-si	15	4.4	0.0
10	Gangwon-do Sokcho-si	8	4.2	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 Yemen nationality, 2025Unit: persons, %

Year 2025

Visa category	Persons	Share
Other(G1)	840	68.1
Dependent Family(F3)	166	13.5
Residential(F2)	78	6.3
Corporate Investment(D8)	44	3.6
Marriage Migration(F6)	21	1.7
Student(D2)	19	1.5
Visiting Cohabitation(F1)	16	1.3
Permanent Residence(F5)	14	1.1
Other statuses	36	2.9

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

Note: The rows of this table add to 1,234, the whole of the Yemen nationality.

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

Year 2025

Age group	Total	Male	Female	Share
0-4	99	50	49	7.8
5-9	94	54	40	7.4
10-14	61	29	32	4.8
15-19	47	26	21	3.7
20-24	50	23	27	3.9
25-29	155	121	34	12.2
30-34	228	193	35	18.0
35-39	239	212	27	18.8
40-44	172	146	26	13.6
45-49	65	61	4	5.1
50-54	28	23	5	2.2
55-59	7	6	1	0.6
60+	23	12	11	1.8

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

Only this table counts all foreign residents, so it totals 1,268 rather than the 1,234 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	5.0	40.0	10.0	5.0	0.0
2009	0.0	25.0	20.0	10.0	0.0
2010	0.0	28.6	11.4	8.6	0.0
2011	0.0	25.9	7.4	13.0	0.0
2012	8.6	29.3	0.0	10.3	6.9
2013	35.7	13.3	0.0	0.0	5.1
2014	62.6	8.3	2.2	1.7	2.6
2015	62.1	6.7	1.8	4.6	2.8
2016	55.5	15.5	2.8	5.1	2.8
2017	49.3	22.2	4.8	5.7	2.2
2018	74.2	11.5	3.0	2.6	1.1
2019	74.6	11.2	4.1	2.4	1.4
2020	74.2	11.4	4.3	2.2	1.4
2021	70.3	12.6	5.3	2.8	1.3
2022	68.9	13.2	6.7	3.1	1.3
2023	69.1	13.1	6.7	3.0	1.5
2024	69.0	12.3	6.5	3.5	1.5
2025	68.1	13.5	6.3	3.6	1.7

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)	Isolation index	Interaction with Koreans
2014	0.723	0.000	0.965
2015	0.712	0.000	0.965
2016	0.732	0.000	0.969
2017	0.715	0.000	0.967
2018	0.722	0.000	0.959
2019	0.685	0.000	0.961
2020	0.719	0.000	0.965
2021	0.710	0.000	0.968
2022	0.712	0.001	0.961
2023	0.721	0.000	0.954
2024	0.690	0.000	0.951
2025	0.699	0.001	0.949

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

First language		Share
Arabic		96.2
Somali		1.5
Hindi		1.1

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, Yemen 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	Yemen Nationality	Share of national
Incheon	525	42.5
Gyeonggi-do	165	13.4
Jeollanam-do	98	7.9
Jeollabuk-do	97	7.9
Gyeongsangbuk-do	84	6.8
Chungcheongbuk-do	79	6.4
Seoul	40	3.2
Chungcheongnam-do	36	2.9
Jeju-do	30	2.4
Gyeongsangnam-do	29	2.4
Daejeon	22	1.8
Ulsan	12	1.0
Gangwon-do	9	0.7
Daegu	4	0.3
Gwangju	2	0.2
Busan	2	0.2