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Table 21. Persons Naturalized by Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Years 2016 to 2018

By Region of Birth

Region of Birth	2016	2017	2018
Total	753,060	707,265	761,901
Africa	72,338	61,851	64,934
Asia	271,733	255,306	275,621
Europe	74,344	65,141	71,436
North America	259,845	258,371	277,592
Oceania	3,953	3,327	3,792
South America	70,821	63,063	67,892
Unknown	26	206	634

By Country of Birth

Country of Birth	2016	2017	2018
Total	753,060	707,265	761,901
Afghanistan	1,444	1,414	1,569
Albania	2,813	2,169	2,203
Algeria	1,035	949	918
American Samoa	285	216	182
Angola	131	125	147
Anguilla	16	20	34
Antigua and Barbuda	383	311	356
Argentina	4,015	3,486	3,977
Armenia	2,516	1,994	2,085
Aruba	28	32	33
Australia	1,389	1,235	1,545
Austria	221	177	238
Azerbaijan	574	483	512
Bahamas	590	481	590
Bahrain	80	77	86
Bangladesh	9,949	8,629	7,797
Barbados	651	645	555
Belarus	1,518	1,313	1,393
Belgium	514	493	520
Belize	870	810	859
Benin	317	309	249
Bermuda	61	65	70
Bhutan	5,563	5,557	6,180
Bolivia	1,862	1,806	1,575
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2,257	1,780	1,805
Botswana	29	27	38
Brazil	10,268	9,701	10,538
Brunei	10	11	15
Bulgaria	2,086	1,887	1,825
Burkina Faso	322	303	347
Burma	6,956	6,825	7,858
Burundi	406	266	284
Cabo Verde	1,207	1,355	1,429
Cambodia	2,756	2,184	2,467
Cameroon	3,088	2,416	2,319
Canada	9,346	7,829	9,379
Cayman Islands	20	23	23
Central African Republic	80	61	73
Chad	105	78	72
Chile	1,666	1,620	1,752
China, People's Republic	35,794	37,674	39,600
Colombia	18,601	16,184	17,564
Congo, Democratic Republic	1,707	1,437	1,776
Congo, Republic	395	322	316
Costa Rica	1,862	1,720	1,860
Cote d'Ivoire	1,127	907	908
Croatia	438	351	371
Cuba	32,101	25,961	32,089
Curacao	13	16	20
Cyprus	105	84	125
Czechia	692	595	644
Czechoslovakia (former)	344	251	260
Denmark	1,193	769	650
Djibouti	52	48	65
Dominica	610	539	612
Dominican Republic	31,320	29,734	22,970
Ecuador	8,568	7,748	7,996
Egypt	5,696	5,154	6,549
El Salvador	17,213	16,941	17,300
Equatorial Guinea	18	8	9
Eritrea	1,797	1,424	1,457
Estonia	183	157	190
Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)	8	16	13
Ethiopia	8,725	7,370	6,769
Fiji	996	841	875
Finland	303	279	283
France	2,841	2,812	2,854
French Polynesia	18	14	13
Gabon	83	67	81
Gambia	724	586	650
Georgia	988	889	751
Germany	4,329	3,879	4,284
Ghana	6,411	5,777	6,047
Greece	1,013	945	1,074
Grenada	658	629	463
Guatemala	9,764	9,131	9,566
Guinea	1,077	957	924
Guinea-Bissau	20	25	28
Guyana	5,284	4,527	4,625
Haiti	15,276	12,794	14,389
Honduras	5,819	5,310	5,645
Hong Kong	1,662	1,623	1,768
Hungary	934	729	922
Iceland	88	83	69
India	46,188	50,802	52,194
Indonesia	1,641	1,566	1,807
Iran	9,507	8,324	8,409
Iraq	12,130	7,875	12,448
Ireland	1,383	1,405	1,621
Israel	3,071	2,466	2,743
Italy	2,692	2,501	2,920
Jamaica	16,772	15,087	17,213
Japan	1,758	1,713	1,869
Jordan	2,552	2,239	2,630
Kazakhstan	760	729	823
Kenya	4,834	4,348	4,302
Korea, North	16	15	30
Korea, South ¹	14,347	14,643	16,031
Kosovo	530	410	451
Kuwait	790	677	789
Kyrgyzstan	408	412	483
Laos	1,999	1,726	2,027
Latvia	356	306	315
Lebanon	2,284	2,081	2,339
Lesotho	9	8	9
Liberia	3,022	2,421	2,752
Libya	210	207	308
Lithuania	626	584	699
Luxembourg	18	14	20
Macau	101	70	79
Macedonia	704	582	669
Madagascar	75	61	53
Malawi	95	84	114
Malaysia	1,189	1,170	1,388
Mali	456	391	398
Malta	43	47	51
Marshall Islands	27	16	21
Mauritania	323	288	252
Mauritius	63	65	70
Mexico	103,550	118,559	131,977
Micronesia, Federated States	67	53	34
Moldova	1,689	1,442	1,680
Mongolia	437	416	468
Montenegro	222	187	205
Montserrat	45	45	52
Morocco	3,684	2,943	2,644
Mozambique	51	38	43
Namibia	33	27	29
Nepal	5,004	4,509	5,352
Netherlands	829	699	851
Netherlands Antilles (former)	45	42	48
New Zealand	565	468	577
Nicaragua	4,663	4,181	4,277
Niger	140	126	110
Nigeria	9,520	7,652	8,459
Norway	93	60	93
Oman	58	30	44
Pakistan	11,729	10,166	10,414
Palau	43	32	28
Panama	1,458	1,266	1,308
Papua New Guinea	19	13	17
Paraguay	396	343	401
Peru	11,319	10,014	10,043
Philippines	41,285	36,828	38,816
Poland	7,198	5,840	6,370
Portugal	1,665	1,807	2,031
Qatar	98	95	92
Romania	3,379	2,986	3,104
Russia	6,067	5,534	6,225
Rwanda	369	267	343
Saint Kitts and Nevis	345	317	281
Saint Lucia	791	697	604
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	500	507	401
Samoa	192	164	168
Saudi Arabia	869	872	990
Senegal	969	882	848
Serbia	532	476	596
Serbia and Montenegro (former)	1,164	820	805
Seychelles	17	5	11
Sierra Leone	1,662	1,328	1,177
Singapore	308	279	332
Sint Maarten	33	21	22
Slovakia	428	384	394
Slovenia	63	52	57
Somalia	3,998	3,774	3,979
South Africa	2,197	1,901	2,262
South Sudan	101	74	109
Soviet Union (former)	2,268	2,123	2,252
Spain	1,515	1,469	1,674
Sri Lanka	1,497	1,364	1,480
Sudan	1,776	1,348	1,611
Suriname	164	143	176
Sweden	795	708	797
Switzerland	375	333	436
Syria	2,043	1,789	2,475
Taiwan	4,043	4,151	4,576
Tajikistan	212	222	261
Tanzania	639	547	561
Thailand	5,211	4,672	5,324
Togo	1,099	907	893
Tonga	337	262	319
Trinidad and Tobago	4,867	4,504	4,378
Tunisia	352	344	306
Turkey	3,201	3,108	3,275
Turkmenistan	102	109	117
Turks and Caicos Islands	31	26	40
Uganda	823	742	703
Ukraine	8,374	6,644	6,990
United Arab Emirates	473	475	542
United Kingdom	9,562	9,049	10,530
United States	95	84	122
Uruguay	1,044	1,028	1,073
Uzbekistan	1,685	1,498	1,532
Venezuela	7,633	6,463	8,172
Vietnam	24,848	19,323	21,082
Virgin Islands, British	46	42	54
Yemen	1,490	1,445	1,544
Zambia	404	401	402
Zimbabwe	843	675	709
All other countries ²	42	38	42
Unknown	26	206	634

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