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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 2019
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Total 39,753 6,692 1,649 4,990 53,084 162,799 32.6
Men 17,819 3,170 854 2,464 24,307 73,029 33.3
Women 21,934 3,522 795 2,526 28,777 89,770 32.1
European Union 955 223 96 244 1,518 8,163 18.6
Men 457 102 34 110 703 3,588 19.6
Women 498 121 62 134 815 4,575 17.8
Rest of Europe 1,352 302 66 308 2,028 6,508 31.2
Men 544 125 28 135 832 2,642 31.5
Women 808 177 38 173 1,196 3,866 30.9
Africa 9,685 3,308 961 2,592 16,546 45,575 36.3
Men 5,447 1,832 577 1,451 9,307 26,173 35.6
Women 4,238 1,476 384 1,141 7,239 19,402 37.3
North America 814 32 7 25 878 2,610 33.6
Men 339 10 1 5 355 1,028 34.5
Women 475 22 6 20 523 1,582 33.1
South and Central America 22,259 2,389 469 1,551 26,668 89,454 29.8
Men 8,098 819 183 591 9,691 33,173 29.2
Women 14,161 1,570 286 960 16,977 56,281 30.2
Asia and Oceania 4,678 436 50 270 5,434 10,387 52.3
Men 2,926 282 31 172 3,411 6,356 53.7
Women 1,752 154 19 98 2,023 4,031 50.2
Unknown nationality and stateless 10 2 0 0 12 102 11.8
Homes 8 0 0 0 8 69 11.6
Dones 2 2 0 0 4 33 12.1
Source: Ministry Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations.
Note: The total includes the number of nationality grants in which is not include sex.

Last update: June 4, 2020.

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 "..".