Citizenship 2018
that in 2018 ...
... Germany and Italy were the top citizenship-granting countries in the EU (both 17% of new citizenships granted), followed by France (16%), Spain (14%) and Sweden (9%)? |
… about eight out of every ten new EU citizens were previously citizens of a non-EU country? The main origins were Morocco (67 200, or 10%), Albania (47 400, or 7%) and Turkey (28 400, or 4%)? |
… the number of former British citizens who have acquired another EU citizenship increased to 16 193 during 2018 (+7.6% compared to 2017)? |
… Luxembourg granted the highest number of citizenships in relation to its population (11.4 per thousand persons), followed by Sweden (6.3) and Cyprus (3.7)? |
... the highest proportion of citizenship acquisitions by women was recorded in Cyprus (57 %), while the highest by men (65%) was in Romania? |
… Latvia and France registered the highest shares of grants of citizenship to children aged under 15 (both 34%), while the highest shares of grants to people aged over 55 were recorded in Bulgaria and Malta (24 % and 23 %, respectively)? |
Source: Eurostat, Acquisition of citizenship statistics. Date of extraction: 26.03.2020
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