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EU member states granted citizenship to 841,200 persons in 2015

In 2015, 841 200 people obtained citizenship of an EU-28 Member State, a decrease of 5 % compared with 2014, according to Eurostat.

  • About 86 % of those who acquired citizenship of an EU-28 Member State in 2015 were previously citizens of a non-EU country.
  • The top five citizenship-granting countries accounted for 75 % of new citizenships granted in the EU in 2015: Italy (178 000 or 21 %), followed by the United Kingdom (118 000 or 14 %), Spain(114 400 or 14 %), France(113  600 or 14 %) and Germany (110 100 or 13 %).
  • Acquisitions of citizenship by women outnumbered acquisitions by men in all but nine of Member States (Belgium, Bulgaria, Ireland, Greece, Italy, Hungary, Malta, Romania and Slovenia).
  • The leading third country nationalities acquiring citizenship are:  Morocco, Albania, Turkey, India, Romania, Pakistan.
  •  The median age of persons acquiring citizenship in the whole of the EU was 32

 

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Prabhu Balakrishnan
Prabhu Balakrishnan
Founder of Citizenship by Investment News. Chief Editor with over 15 years experience in PR and News publishing. He Loves writing about citizenship, residency and wealth migration. CIP Journal is a Leading publication founded in 2017 bringing latest news from CBI/RBI market.

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