Acquisitions of EU citizenship

In 2024, the EU-27 figure for acquisitions of EU citizenship was 1,177,232 .

That is a 11.6% rose versus 2023 (1,054,451).

Over the five years before that, the EU-27 aggregate moved 65.3% higher.

Across member states, Germany reported the highest value (288,670, 2024) and Lithuania the lowest (124, 2024) — a ratio of 2328.0× between the two ends of the range.

The figures below come from Eurostat dataset migr_acq; every value links back to the canonical source.