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Foreigners obtaining spanish citizenship declines by 55%

Spain has released latest citizenship statistics on foreigners acquiring citizenship in Spain.

 

During the year 2017, a total of 66,498 foreigners residing in Spain acquired Spanish nationality. This figure represents a decrease of 55.9% over the previous year 2016.

 

The most frequent nationalities of origin were

  • Morocco (17,082),
  • Ecuador (7,301) and
  • Bolivia (6,124),
  • Colombia (5647)
  • Dominican Republic (4,107)

 

according to spanish statistics office.

 

About 41,180 foreigners naturalized for citizenship through residency.

 

By sex, 49.2% of foreigners who acquired Spanish nationality in 2017 were women and 50.8% men. By age, people between zero and nine years were the largest group in terms of acquisitions of Spanish nationality.

 

Foreigners in Spain
Acquisition of Spanish nationality by country in 2017

 

 

Madrid, Catalonia and Valencia granted the most citizenships for foreigners in Spain

 

Citizenship

 

Foreign expats in Spain

 

Moroccans topped the list of foreign nationalities living in Spain, with a total number of foreign population of 682,515 inhabitants. This figure is closely followed by Romania, whose foreign population reached 675,086 inhabitants residing in Spain in January 2018.

 

Other major foreign populations living in Spain were British, Italians and Chinese.

 

Foreigners in spain

 

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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