DE · 2022 · migr_acq
Acquisitions of EU citizenship
Germany, 2022
In 2022, Germany's acquisitions of EU citizenship increased by 28.2% compared to 2021, reaching 166,640.
Germany accounts for 16.8% of the EU-27 total of 990,857.
Germany ranks 3rd 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 44.4% (from 115,421 in 2017).
Source: Eurostat dataset migr_acq, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.