Acquisitions of citizenship in European Union
1,177,232 people acquired the citizenship of the European Union in 2024. The value for 2024 is the highest in the series, which starts in 2008. The source marks a break in the series within this span, so values before and after it may not be fully comparable.
European Union is a group: European Union, 27 member states (composition from February 2020). The value is the aggregate published by Eurostat, not an average calculated on this site.
European Union, 2024
1,177,232
Change from 2023
+11.6%
Acquisitions of citizenship in European Union over time
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The chart shows a calculation from the published values. The table below keeps the published values.
People. Source: Eurostat. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | European Union |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1,177,232 people |
| 2023 | 1,054,451 people |
| 2022 | 990,857 people |
| 2021 | 827,708 peopleep (estimated, provisional) |
| 2020 | 730,668 peopleep (estimated, provisional) |
| 2019 | 712,266 peopleep (estimated, provisional) |
| 2018 | 676,593 peopleep (estimated, provisional) |
| 2017 | 703,724 peopleb (break in time series) |
| 2016 | 843,894 peoplee (estimated) |
| 2015 | 721,740 peopleep (estimated, provisional) |
| 2014 | 762,138 peoplebep (break in time series, estimated, provisional) |
| 2013 | 771,684 peoplebe (break in time series, estimated) |
| 2012 | 626,942 peoplebe (break in time series, estimated) |
| 2011 | 607,113 peoplee (estimated) |
| 2010 | 619,801 peoplebep (break in time series, estimated, provisional) |
| 2009 | 566,079 peoplebe (break in time series, estimated) |
| 2008 | 575,354 peoplebe (break in time series, estimated) |
Flags: be break in time series, estimated; bep break in time series, estimated, provisional; e estimated; ep estimated, provisional; b break in time series . A dash means no value was published.
In short
- That is a change of +11.6% from 1,054,451 people in 2023.
- Since 2014, when it was 762,138 people, the figure has changed by +54.5%. The source marks a break in the series during this period, so part of the change may come from a change in method.
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5,684,984ip (Source flag ip) immigrants
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3,166,449ep (Source flag ep) emigrants
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Net migration rate
4.6ep (Source flag ep) per 1,000 people
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Net migration
-317,019 people
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