PT · 2023 · migr_acq
Acquisitions of EU citizenship
Portugal, 2023
In 2023, Portugal's acquisitions of EU citizenship decreased by 18.5% compared to 2022, reaching 16,985.
Portugal accounts for 1.6% of the EU-27 total of 1,054,451.
Portugal ranks 9th 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 20.4% (from 21,333 in 2018).
Source: Eurostat dataset migr_acq, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.