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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 2015
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Total 10,341 2,127 1,447 1,415 15,330 78,000 19.7
Men 5,055 1,091 754 763 7,663 35,312 21.7
Women 5,286 1,036 693 651 7,666 42,683 18.0
European Union 135 47 38 31 251 2,072 12.1
Men 67 25 19 16 127 907 14.0
Women 68 22 19 15 124 1,165 10.6
Rest of Europe 147 53 37 31 268 1,492 18.0
Men 60 21 23 12 116 570 20.4
Women 87 32 14 19 152 922 16.5
Africa 4,119 1,164 931 918 7,132 25,269 28.2
Men 2,396 717 551 553 4,217 15,129 27.9
Women 1,723 447 380 365 2,915 10,139 28.8
North America 106 6 3 5 120 634 18.9
Men 49 1 0 1 51 235 21.7
Women 57 5 3 4 69 399 17.3
South and Central America 5,085 733 419 377 6,614 45,424 14.6
Men 1,994 249 149 146 2,538 16,557 15.3
Women 3,091 484 270 230 4,075 28,863 14.1
Asia and Oceania 747 123 18 53 941 3,083 30.5
Men 488 78 12 35 613 1,897 32.3
Women 259 45 6 18 328 1,186 27.7
Unknown nationality and stateless 2 1 1 0 4 26 15.4
Homes 1 0 0 0 1 17 5.9
Dones 1 1 1 0 3 9 33.3
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: July 13, 2016.

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 "..".