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Spanish nationality grants. By sex and the continent of previous nationality. Provinces

Spanish nationality grants. By sex and the continent of previous nationality Catalonia
Total Men Women European Union Men Women Rest of Europe Men Women Africa Men Women North America Men Women South and Central America Men Women Asia and Oceania Men Women Unknown nationality and stateless Homes Dones
2019 53,084 24,307 28,777 1,518 703 815 2,028 832 1,196 16,546 9,307 7,239 878 355 523 26,668 9,691 16,977 5,434 3,411 2,023 12 8 4
2018 18,952 9,078 9,874 361 165 196 509 209 300 8,823 5,014 3,809 197 68 129 7,744 2,804 4,940 1,317 817 500 1 1 0
2017 6,564 3,319 3,245 115 55 60 164 62 102 2,495 1,575 920 66 28 38 3,137 1,192 1,945 584 405 179 3 2 1
2016 18,813 9,438 9,375 357 173 184 366 139 227 8,924 5,182 3,742 153 69 84 7,890 3,136 4,754 1,117 738 379 6 1 5
2015 15,330 7,663 7,666 251 127 124 268 116 152 7,132 4,217 2,915 120 51 69 6,614 2,538 4,075 941 613 328 4 1 3
2014 21,658 11,034 10,620 358 177 180 422 169 253 8,122 4,974 3,145 180 59 121 11,009 4,528 6,481 1,563 1,123 440 4 4 0
2013 73,468 34,787 38,657 734 329 405 905 329 576 21,121 12,704 8,408 689 287 402 45,976 18,301 27,661 3,913 2,748 1,164 130 89 41
Source:
2013: Ministerio de Empleo y Seguridad Social. Observatorio Permanente de la Immigración.
2014-2018: Spanish Ministry of Employment and Social Security.
2019: Ministry Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations.
Notes:
The total includes the number of nationality grants in which is not include sex.
L'any 2017 ha disminuït el nombre de concessions per causes administratives.

Last update: June 4, 2020.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Nacionality
Legal bond that joins the person to the State and of which a series of rights and duties are derived.

Methodological aspects

The statistical of grants of the Spanish citizenship provide information regarding the number of foreign nationals who access Spanish citizenship by residence in Spain, in the conditions established in the Civil Code: by possession of state (Art. 18 CC), by adoption (Art. 19 CC), by choice (Art. 20 CC), with a naturalization card (Art. 21 CC) or by residence (Art. 22 CC).

This statistical includes only those cases of acquisition of citizenship by residence in Spain, this being the most common means for foreign nationals.

For the acquisition of the citizenship by residence it is necessary to have lived in Spain in a legal way, continued and immediately former to the request during a period of ten years, five, two or one, according to the cases:

  • Deu anys: general rule.
  • Five years: for the people who have been recognised as a refugee.
  • Two years: for those people originally from Latin America countries, Andorra, Philippines, Equatorial Guinea, Portugal or of Sephardic origin.
  • One year: for those people who are in the following situations:
    • a) they have been born in Spanish territory;
    • b) they have not exercised appropriately the faculty of opting;
    • c) they have been subject legally to the protection, guardianship or tutelage of a citizen or Spanish institution for two consecutive years, even if they continue in this situation in the moment of the request;
    • d) it's been a year that they are married with Spaniard and are not separate legally or de facto in the moment of the request (it is understood that the spouse who lives with Spanish diplomatic officer or consular agent accredited abroad has legal residence in Spain);
    • e) they are widowers of Spaniard if in the death of spouse there is no legal or de facto separation;
    • f) they have been born out of Spain of father or mother, grandfather or grandmother who originally have been Spaniards.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".