IE · 2020 · migr_acq
Acquisitions of EU citizenship
Ireland, 2020
In 2020, Ireland's acquisitions of EU citizenship decreased by 5.5% compared to 2019, reaching 5,475.
Ireland accounts for 0.7% of the EU-27 total of 730,668.
Ireland ranks 14th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 59.6% (from 13,565 in 2015).
Source: Eurostat dataset migr_acq, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.