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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 2009
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Total 15,612 1,726 904 1,324 19,566 79,597 24.6
Men 6,843 833 444 621 8,741 34,010 25.7
Women 8,749 892 459 701 10,801 45,486 23.7
European Union 105 21 11 17 154 1,062 14.5
Men 48 11 4 5 68 457 14.9
Women 56 10 7 12 85 603 14.1
Rest of Europe 140 31 8 19 198 667 29.7
Men 33 8 1 7 49 185 26.5
Women 107 23 7 12 149 480 31.0
Africa 2,510 587 261 282 3,640 8,816 41.3
Men 1,398 329 157 185 2,069 5,040 41.1
Women 1,111 258 104 96 1,569 3,766 41.7
North America 14 1 0 1 16 661 2.4
Men 8 1 0 1 10 251 4.0
Women 6 0 0 0 6 409 1.5
South and Central America 12,225 1,044 617 987 14,873 66,659 22.3
Men 5,019 467 280 410 6,176 27,130 22.8
Women 7,190 576 336 576 8,678 39,454 22.0
Asia and Oceania 614 42 5 17 678 1,707 39.7
Men 335 17 2 12 366 937 39.1
Women 277 25 3 5 310 765 40.5
Source: Ministerio de Empleo y Seguridad Social. Observatorio Permanente de la Immigración.
Note: Total include not stated and stateless.

Last update: March 15, 2013.

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 "..".