EU Helpers states that the overall number of naturalization rates between 2018 and 2022 has reached 651,495, according to Statista. These new German citizens originate from 169 different countries.
More over half of the countries of origin for newly naturalized Germans are in Europe, with Syrians and Turks making up 23.3% of all citizens issued during this time, or 151,995.
EU Citizens Make Up Three of Every Ten Nationalities with German Citizenship
With more than 33,000 obtaining new citizenship, British nationals became the third largest group of nationalities to become citizens of Germany.
Placed fourth and fifth, respectively, Romania and Poland were the birthplaces of nearly 60,000 individuals who became citizens since 2018. Italy comes in seventh place, with 22,155 Italians choosing German citizenship in the same time frame.
This indicates that 80,435 persons, or more than 12% of the new German citizens, were citizens of other EU nations.
Iraq (24,730) is ranked sixth on the list of the top ten nationality groups to get German citizenship. Iran (19,660), Kosovo (17,990), and Ukraine (16,455) rank eighth, ninth, and tenth, respectively.
A 50.2% increase in naturalizations Since 2018
Between 2018 and 2022, 56,435 persons obtained German citizenship, representing a 50.2% increase.
Over the course of these five years, naturalization rates have been rising gradually; the largest increase, at about 29%, was noted between 2021 and 2022.
But in 2020, there was an almost 15% decline in the desire for foreign nationals to become German citizens. This may have resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw a major decline in all migration-related procedures.
During this time, 14,108 persons on average became citizens of Germany. The year 2022 saw the most number of naturalizations at 37,180, while the year 2018 and 2019 saw the lowest number at 16,565.
The data for 2019 indicates that, according to the latest OECD Migration Outlook, approximately 16 per cent of Germans, or one in every six residents, are migrants. Given that 16 federal states have enacted new citizenship laws that facilitate naturalization for non-German nationals, this number may rise even more.
Foreigners are now permitted to hold dual citizenship—German and their original citizenship—after 16 German federal states approved this.
According to the Turkish Community in Germany, the new law may make it possible for about 50,000 persons of Turkish ancestry to get German citizenship. It is believed that over 1.5 million German citizens who are of Turkish descent do not yet hold German citizenship.
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