{"id":341149,"date":"2024-02-29T12:21:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T11:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/02\/29\/italia-prima-nella-concessione-della-cittadinanza-in-ue-nel-2022\/"},"modified":"2024-03-05T20:09:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T19:09:25","slug":"italy-first-in-granting-citizenship-in-eu-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/02\/29\/italy-first-in-granting-citizenship-in-eu-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy first in granting citizenship in EU in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; In 2022, 989,000 people acquired the citizenship of the EU country in which they lived, an increase of about 20 percent (+163,100 people) compared with\u00a02021.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Most of the new citizenships (in absolute numbers) were granted by Italy<\/strong> (213 700; 22 percent of the EU total). Spain (181 800; 18 pct of the EU total) and Germany (166 600; 17 pct) granted the second and third highest number of new citizenships.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart\" data-src=\"visualisation\/16977190\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The largest increases in citizenships granted to non-national\u00a0residents in 2022, compared to 2021, were recorded in <strong>Italy<\/strong> (+92,200), Spain (+37,600) and Germany (+36,600). At the other end of the scale, the largest decreases were recorded in France (-15,900), the Netherlands (-9,300), and Portugal (-3,700). Data show that <strong>87 pct of all those granted EU citizenship from the country in which they lived were citizens of a non-EU country<\/strong>. Citizens of an EU country other than their country of residence accounted for 12 percent. The rest had unknown previous citizenship (1 percent) or were stateless (0.7 percent).<\/p>\n<p>This information comes from the <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Acquisition_of_citizenship_statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> acquisition of citizenship data<\/a> published today by <strong>Eurostat<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h4 id='moroccans-syrians-and-albanians-remained-the-top-three-recipients-of-citizenship'  id=\"boomdevs_1\">Moroccans, Syrians, and Albanians remained the top three recipients of citizenship<\/h4>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;\">In 2022, Moroccan residents were the largest group of new EU citizens, with a total of 112,700 citizenship status granted. The second largest group were Syrian nationals, with 90,400 citizenship granted, followed by Albanians with 50,300 being granted citizenship.<\/p>\n<h4 id='romania-recorded-the-highest-naturalization-rate-in-2022'  id=\"boomdevs_2\">Romania recorded the highest naturalization rate in 2022<\/h4>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Naturalizzazione.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-jnews-750x375 wp-image-341116\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Naturalizzazione-750x375.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Naturalizzazione-750x375.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Naturalizzazione-360x180.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Naturalizzazione-1140x570.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The naturalization rate is the ratio of the number of people who acquired the citizenship of a country in which they lived during a year \u00a0over the stock of non-national residents in the same country at the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Romania had the highest naturalization rate among EU countries, with 26.8 citizenships granted for every 100 non-national residents. Sweden stood at 10.6, followed by the Netherlands at 4.4, and Italy at 4.2.<\/p>\n<p>At the other end of the scale, the lowest naturalization rates per 100 non-national residents were recorded in Latvia and Estonia (both 0.4), Austria and Bulgaria (both 0.7) and Malta and the Czech Republic (both 0.8).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eurostat data. 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