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

Sources:

• http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/table.do?tab=table&init=1&language=en&pcode=tps00024&plugin=1
• http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Acquisition_of_citizenship_statistics