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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 2018
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Total 12,533 2,549 1,429 2,441 18,952 92,501 20.5
Men 5,889 1,233 758 1,198 9,078 41,885 21.7
Women 6,644 1,316 671 1,243 9,874 50,616 19.5
European Union 197 61 37 66 361 2,908 12.4
Men 91 22 19 33 165 1,264 13.1
Women 106 39 18 33 196 1,644 11.9
Rest of Europe 285 88 49 87 509 2,604 19.5
Men 119 37 17 36 209 1,008 20.7
Women 166 51 32 51 300 1,596 18.8
Africa 4,904 1,432 987 1,500 8,823 33,536 26.3
Men 2,809 797 594 814 5,014 19,582 25.6
Women 2,095 635 393 686 3,809 13,954 27.3
North America 175 11 5 6 197 821 24.0
Men 63 3 1 1 68 319 21.3
Women 112 8 4 5 129 502 25.7
South and Central America 5,916 824 307 697 7,744 47,443 16.3
Men 2,155 288 100 261 2,804 16,804 16.7
Women 3,761 536 207 436 4,940 30,639 16.1
Asia and Oceania 1,055 133 44 85 1,317 5,154 25.6
Men 651 86 27 53 817 2,886 28.3
Women 404 47 17 32 500 2,268 22.0
Unknown nationality and stateless 1 0 0 0 1 35 2.9
Homes 1 0 0 0 1 22 4.5
Dones 0 0 0 0 0 13 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: June 6, 2019.

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 "..".