In 2022, 112,700 Moroccan citizens received EU citizenship, ranking first in terms of naturalization rates. Syrians took second place with 90,400 people. Third – Albanians – 50,300.
Romanians ranked fourth in obtaining citizenship of another EU member state. By the way, it is Romania that in 2022 has the highest naturalization rate throughout the EU. The naturalization rate is the ratio of the number of persons who received citizenship of the country in which they lived during the year to the number of non-citizens living in the same country at the beginning of the year. In 2022, Romania’s naturalization rate was 26.8 citizenships acquired per 100 non-citizen residents. Next in the ranking is Sweden with 10.6, the Netherlands with 4.4, Italy with 4.2.
With the lowest coefficients are Latvia and Estonia (both 0.4), Austria and Bulgaria (0.7), Malta and the Czech Republic (0.8).