Acquisitions of citizenship by country, 2024, European Union (27 countries)
The number of people who were granted the citizenship of the country during the year.
27 places ranked for 2024. Highest: Germany (288,670 people). Lowest: Lithuania (124 people). The median is 6,255 people.
Members since the United Kingdom left the EU on 31 January 2020. About this group
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Source: Eurostat.
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| # | Country | Value | Period | Relative size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Germany | 288,670 people | 2024 | |
| 2 | Spain | 252,476 people | 2024 | |
| 3 | Italy | 217,448 people | 2024 | |
| 4 | France | 103,661 people | 2024 | |
| 5 | Sweden | 62,989 people | 2024 | |
| 6 | Belgium | 60,108 people | 2024 | |
| 7 | Netherlands | 58,999 people | 2024 | |
| 8 | Ireland | 24,059 people | 2024 | |
| 9 | Portugal | 20,624 people | 2024 | |
| 10 | Poland | 16,075 people | 2024 | |
| 11 | Greece | 14,275 people | 2024 | |
| 12 | Austria | 13,036 people | 2024 | |
| 13 | Finland | 11,512 people | 2024 | |
| 14 | Denmark | 6,255 people | 2024 | |
| 15 | Luxembourg | 5,892 people | 2024 | |
| 16 | Czechia | 5,819 people | 2024 | |
| 17 | Romania | 4,040 people | 2024 | |
| 18 | Cyprus | 2,800 people | 2024 | |
| 19 | Hungary | 1,742 people | 2024 | |
| 20 | Slovenia | 1,654 people | 2024 | |
| 21 | Malta | 1,145 people | 2024 | |
| 22 | Latvia | 1,056 people | 2024 | |
| 23 | Slovakia | 879 people | 2024 | |
| 24 | Croatia | 793 people | 2024 | |
| 25 | Estonia | 758 people | 2024 | |
| 26 | Bulgaria | 343 people | 2024 | |
| 27 | Lithuania | 124 people | 2024 |
Places are ordered from the highest to the lowest value. Group medians on this site are the middle value of the members with data for the same year; they are not official aggregates.
How this ranking works
Every country is ranked on its value for 2024, the latest period that most countries have, so all values are for the same point in time. Countries without a value for 2024 are left out. Groups and aggregates such as the European Union are not ranked. Values are as published by Eurostat; the ranking is a plain ordering from the highest to the lowest value and says nothing about whether a high value is good or bad.
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