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Spanish nationality grants. By sex and the continent of previous nationality. Provinces

Spanish nationality grants. By sex and the continent of previous nationality 2010
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Total 23,066 2,632 1,232 2,220 29,150 123,721 23.6
Men 10,106 1,274 587 1,013 12,980 52,991 24.5
Women 12,939 1,356 643 1,207 16,145 70,604 22.9
European Union 109 34 22 33 198 1,734 11.4
Men 43 18 8 14 83 715 11.6
Women 66 16 14 19 115 1,016 11.3
Rest of Europe 141 48 15 35 239 837 28.6
Men 34 12 3 13 62 227 27.3
Women 107 36 12 22 177 610 29.0
Africa 3,404 867 358 474 5,103 13,828 36.9
Men 1,919 500 233 301 2,953 7,874 37.5
Women 1,481 367 124 173 2,145 5,937 36.1
North America 204 14 12 16 246 1,022 24.1
Men 73 9 4 5 91 376 24.2
Women 131 5 8 11 155 645 24.0
South and Central America 18,491 1,597 810 1,625 22,523 103,971 21.7
Men 7,631 690 329 664 9,314 42,572 21.9
Women 10,844 905 480 961 13,190 61,303 21.5
Asia and Oceania 714 70 15 37 836 2,302 36.3
Men 404 45 10 16 475 1,216 39.1
Women 309 25 5 21 360 1,082 33.3
Source: Ministerio de Empleo y Seguridad Social. Observatorio Permanente de la Immigración.
Note: Total include not stated and stateless.

Last update: March 15, 2013.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Nacionality
Legal bond that joins the person to the State and of which a series of rights and duties are derived.

Methodological aspects

The statistical of grants of the Spanish citizenship provide information regarding the number of foreign nationals who access Spanish citizenship by residence in Spain, in the conditions established in the Civil Code: by possession of state (Art. 18 CC), by adoption (Art. 19 CC), by choice (Art. 20 CC), with a naturalization card (Art. 21 CC) or by residence (Art. 22 CC).

This statistical includes only those cases of acquisition of citizenship by residence in Spain, this being the most common means for foreign nationals.

For the acquisition of the citizenship by residence it is necessary to have lived in Spain in a legal way, continued and immediately former to the request during a period of ten years, five, two or one, according to the cases:

  • Deu anys: general rule.
  • Five years: for the people who have been recognised as a refugee.
  • Two years: for those people originally from Latin America countries, Andorra, Philippines, Equatorial Guinea, Portugal or of Sephardic origin.
  • One year: for those people who are in the following situations:
    • a) they have been born in Spanish territory;
    • b) they have not exercised appropriately the faculty of opting;
    • c) they have been subject legally to the protection, guardianship or tutelage of a citizen or Spanish institution for two consecutive years, even if they continue in this situation in the moment of the request;
    • d) it's been a year that they are married with Spaniard and are not separate legally or de facto in the moment of the request (it is understood that the spouse who lives with Spanish diplomatic officer or consular agent accredited abroad has legal residence in Spain);
    • e) they are widowers of Spaniard if in the death of spouse there is no legal or de facto separation;
    • f) they have been born out of Spain of father or mother, grandfather or grandmother who originally have been Spaniards.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".