The European Union stats office publishes interesting statistics related to the acquisition of citizenship in the EU. Yesterday it was the anniversary of my Irish one, so I pulled out some stats related to Ireland.

The first chart shows the increase in the number of new citizens from 2011, when the government streamlined the process of reviewing the applications, cutting a very important backlog.

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The data contains additional information about the origin of the naturalised citizens both from the EU and Non-EU countries:

Living in Europe with a European passport definitely makes life way easier, so thank you very much Ireland.