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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 2016
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Total 12,405 2,970 1,426 2,012 18,813 93,760 20.1
Men 6,154 1,422 752 1,110 9,438 42,680 22.1
Women 6,251 1,548 674 902 9,375 51,079 18.4
European Union 206 52 62 37 357 2,794 12.8
Men 104 21 28 20 173 1,221 14.2
Women 102 31 34 17 184 1,573 11.7
Rest of Europe 210 60 33 63 366 1,912 19.1
Men 73 16 17 33 139 705 19.7
Women 137 44 16 30 227 1,207 18.8
Africa 5,209 1,588 893 1,234 8,924 31,724 28.1
Men 2,986 886 546 764 5,182 18,677 27.7
Women 2,223 702 347 470 3,742 13,046 28.7
North America 137 5 6 5 153 786 19.5
Men 62 2 3 2 69 292 23.6
Women 75 3 3 3 84 494 17.0
South and Central America 5,783 1,114 407 586 7,890 52,582 15.0
Men 2,370 390 142 234 3,136 19,384 16.2
Women 3,413 724 265 352 4,754 33,198 14.3
Asia and Oceania 856 151 24 86 1,117 3,918 28.5
Men 558 107 16 57 738 2,374 31.1
Women 298 44 8 29 379 1,544 24.5
Unknown nationality and stateless 4 0 1 1 6 44 13.6
Homes 1 0 0 0 1 27 3.7
Dones 3 0 1 1 5 17 29.4
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: June 26, 2017.

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 "..".