Acquisitions of EU citizenship

In 2024, Bulgaria's acquisitions of EU citizenship decreased by 13.8% compared to 2023, reaching 343.

Bulgaria accounts for 0.0% of the EU-27 total of 1,177,232.

Bulgaria ranks 26th 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 53.4% (from 736 in 2019).

Source: Eurostat dataset migr_acq, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.