IE · 2017 · migr_acq
Acquisitions of EU citizenship
Ireland, 2017
In 2017, Ireland's acquisitions of EU citizenship decreased by 18.4% compared to 2016, reaching 8,195.
Ireland accounts for 1.2% of the EU-27 total of 703,724.
Ireland ranks 13th 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 67.3% (from 25,039 in 2012).
Source: Eurostat dataset migr_acq, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.