Acquisitions of EU citizenship

In 2009, Malta's acquisitions of EU citizenship increased by 26.9% compared to 2008, reaching 817.

Malta accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 566,079.

Malta ranks 25th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 39.9% (from 584 in 2004).

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