IE · 2016 · migr_acq
Acquisitions of EU citizenship
Ireland, 2016
In 2016, Ireland's acquisitions of EU citizenship decreased by 26.0% compared to 2015, reaching 10,038.
Ireland accounts for 1.2% of the EU-27 total of 843,894.
Ireland ranks 11th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 6.6% (from 10,749 in 2011).
Source: Eurostat dataset migr_acq, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.