Citizenship, Italy first in the EU for number of acquisitions
147 thousand in 2017, 18% of those registered throughout the Union. The Eurostat interactive report
Out of 825,000 third-country nationals who have acquired European citizenship in 2017, as many as 147,000 (18%) have become Italian.
Italy leads the ranking of the 28 by number of acquisitions, followed by the United Kingdom (15%), Germany and France (14% each), Sweden and Spain (8% each), as highlighted by a comparison published yesterday by Eurostat.
Of all the member countries, the new European citizens are mainly Moroccans (8%), Albanians (7%), Indians and Turks (4% in both cases).
However, if we consider only Italy, on the podium there are Moroccans (29,000), Albanians (21,000) and Brazilians (10,000).
The following interactive report allows to deepen in detail the data between 2012 and 2017 by EU Country and by citizenship of origin.
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