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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 2011
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Total 22,273 3,507 1,037 1,786 28,603 114,599 25.0
Men 10,100 1,719 491 911 13,221 51,217 25.8
Women 12,155 1,788 546 875 15,364 63,319 24.3
European Union 141 59 21 22 243 2,086 11.6
Men 65 23 7 11 106 931 11.4
Women 76 36 14 11 137 1,153 11.9
Rest of Europe 153 45 14 23 235 945 24.9
Men 42 16 3 9 70 265 26.4
Women 111 29 11 14 165 680 24.3
Africa 4,254 1,419 368 631 6,672 18,333 36.4
Men 2,498 809 210 404 3,921 10,753 36.5
Women 1,753 610 158 227 2,748 7,569 36.3
North America 200 15 1 11 227 960 23.6
Men 66 7 1 4 78 378 20.6
Women 134 8 0 7 149 582 25.6
South and Central America 16,709 1,865 625 1,048 20,247 89,698 22.6
Men 6,932 801 266 453 8,452 37,457 22.6
Women 9,763 1,064 359 595 11,781 52,193 22.6
Asia and Oceania 810 102 7 51 970 2,545 38.1
Men 494 63 4 30 591 1,415 41.8
Women 315 39 3 21 378 1,128 33.5
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 "..".