BE · 2020 · migr_acq
Acquisitions of EU citizenship
Belgium, 2020
In 2020, Belgium's acquisitions of EU citizenship decreased by 16.5% compared to 2019, reaching 33,915.
Belgium accounts for 4.6% of the EU-27 total of 730,668.
Belgium ranks 7th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 25.3% (from 27,071 in 2015).
Source: Eurostat dataset migr_acq, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.