PT · 2021 · migr_acq
Acquisitions of EU citizenship
Portugal, 2021
In 2021, Portugal's acquisitions of EU citizenship decreased by 23.7% compared to 2020, reaching 24,516.
Portugal accounts for 3.0% of the EU-27 total of 827,708.
Portugal ranks 8th 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 2.3% (from 25,104 in 2016).
Source: Eurostat dataset migr_acq, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.