Citizenship 2016
that in 2016 ...
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... Italy was the top citizenship-granting country in the EU (20% of new citizenships granted), followed by Spain and the United Kingdom (both 15%), France (12%) and Germany (11%)? |
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… nine out of every ten new EU citizens were previously citizens of a non-EU country? The main origins were Morocco (101 295, or 10 %), Albania (67 483, or 7 %) and India (41 669, or 4 %)? |
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… 120 235 citizens of EU-28 Member States acquired citizenship of another EU-28 Member State? (12% of total acquisitions)? |
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… Sweden and Luxembourg granted the highest number of citizenships in relation to their population (6 per thousand persons), followed by Cyprus (5)? |
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... the highest proportion of citizenship acquisitions by women was recorded in Cyprus (59 %), while the highest by men (62%) was in Romania? |
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… Sweden registered the highest share of grants of citizenship to children aged under 15 (35%), while the highest share of grants to people aged over 65 was recorded in Luxembourg, Slovakia and Hungary (7%)? |
Source: Eurostat, Acquisition of citizenship statistics. Date of extraction: 05.04.2018
Further information can also be found in the Eurostat news release on acquisition of citizenship in the EU.
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