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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 2014
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Total 15,575 2,615 1,641 1,827 21,658 93,714 23.1
Men 7,883 1,347 839 965 11,034 43,669 25.3
Women 7,689 1,267 802 862 10,620 50,034 21.2
European Union 189 46 70 53 358 2,602 13.8
Men 92 20 34 31 177 1,173 15.1
Women 96 26 36 22 180 1,428 12.6
Rest of Europe 245 79 38 60 422 1,844 22.9
Men 98 28 12 31 169 730 23.2
Women 147 51 26 29 253 1,114 22.7
Africa 5,004 1,404 797 917 8,122 25,884 31.4
Men 3,067 837 506 564 4,974 15,923 31.2
Women 1,935 566 291 353 3,145 9,956 31.6
North America 152 12 6 10 180 894 20.1
Men 49 4 4 2 59 322 18.3
Women 103 8 2 8 121 572 21.2
South and Central America 8,630 961 696 722 11,009 58,239 18.9
Men 3,598 387 258 285 4,528 22,759 19.9
Women 5,032 574 438 437 6,481 35,476 18.3
Asia and Oceania 1,352 112 34 65 1,563 4,194 37.3
Men 976 70 25 52 1,123 2,731 41.1
Women 376 42 9 13 440 1,462 30.1
Unknown nationality and stateless 3 1 0 0 4 57 7.0
Homes 3 1 0 0 4 31 12.9
Dones 0 0 0 0 0 26 0.0
Source: Spanish Ministry of Employment and Social Security.
Note: The total includes the number of nationality grants in which is not include sex.

Last update: September 9, 2015.

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 "..".