Table 21. Persons Naturalized by Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Years 2011 to 2020

By Region of Birth

Region of birth	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Total	694,193	757,434	779,929	653,416	730,259	753,060	707,265	761,901	843,593	628,254
Africa	69,738	74,775	71,872	62,175	71,492	72,338	61,851	64,934	84,990	66,436
Asia	249,940	257,035	275,700	233,163	261,374	271,733	255,306	275,621	327,273	246,099
Europe	82,209	82,714	80,333	71,325	78,074	74,344	65,141	71,436	81,040	57,403
North America	217,750	261,673	271,807	222,547	247,492	259,845	258,371	277,592	276,910	204,250
Oceania	3,734	3,886	3,849	3,399	3,811	3,953	3,327	3,792	4,308	3,392
South America	70,485	76,992	76,167	60,665	67,927	70,821	63,063	67,892	68,678	50,441
Unknown	337	359	201	142	89	26	206	634	394	233

By Country of Birth

Country of birth	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Total	694,193	757,434	779,929	653,416	730,259	753,060	707,265	761,901	843,593	628,254
Afghanistan	1,998	1,758	2,074	1,853	1,589	1,444	1,414	1,569	2,794	4,025
Albania	4,267	3,615	3,538	3,131	3,237	2,813	2,169	2,203	2,778	2,308
Algeria	773	891	841	928	943	1,035	949	918	1,235	1,063
American Samoa	205	180	265	187	296	285	216	182	279	177
Angola	162	166	143	145	132	131	125	147	136	94
Anguilla	38	30	26	18	31	16	20	34	25	19
Antigua and Barbuda	386	390	366	358	381	383	311	356	386	265
Argentina	3,870	3,909	4,177	3,683	3,886	4,015	3,486	3,977	3,956	2,884
Armenia	3,965	3,285	3,203	2,488	2,874	2,516	1,994	2,085	2,327	1,852
Aruba	40	27	42	28	37	28	32	33	54	37
Australia	1,291	1,312	1,296	1,159	1,379	1,389	1,235	1,545	1,838	1,436
Austria	271	241	248	223	207	221	177	238	214	160
Azerbaijan	1,153	958	786	585	568	574	483	512	597	451
Bahamas	609	647	681	545	570	590	481	590	640	481
Bahrain	80	93	76	90	79	80	77	86	116	79
Bangladesh	7,325	8,417	9,571	7,475	9,750	9,949	8,629	7,797	9,067	6,883
Barbados	648	687	683	550	646	651	645	555	625	399
Belarus	1,814	1,896	1,797	1,437	1,710	1,518	1,313	1,393	1,730	1,302
Belgium	525	522	513	408	505	514	493	520	575	430
Belize	742	817	966	773	851	870	810	859	950	669
Benin	183	210	206	229	310	317	309	249	343	297
Bermuda	58	65	59	67	66	61	65	70	64	52
Bhutan	55	42	275	2,639	4,562	5,563	5,557	6,180	6,920	4,536
Bolivia	1,446	2,063	1,961	1,527	1,689	1,862	1,806	1,575	1,679	1,208
Bosnia and Herzegovina	4,259	4,904	3,662	2,509	3,304	2,257	1,780	1,805	1,709	1,059
Botswana	9	11	29	24	28	29	27	38	41	34
Brazil	10,251	9,884	9,565	8,625	10,516	10,268	9,701	10,538	10,451	8,323
Brunei	11	17	11	15	13	10	11	15	26	19
Bulgaria	3,103	2,964	2,646	2,226	2,336	2,086	1,887	1,825	2,251	1,656
Burkina Faso	163	166	230	235	307	322	303	347	426	376
Burma	2,321	2,384	3,489	4,225	6,045	6,956	6,825	7,858	11,674	9,181
Burundi	168	209	379	415	437	406	266	284	394	280
Cabo Verde	974	1,037	1,014	979	1,054	1,207	1,355	1,429	1,316	930
Cambodia	4,589	6,189	4,161	2,866	2,878	2,756	2,184	2,467	2,877	2,405
Cameroon	2,172	2,459	2,541	2,120	3,170	3,088	2,416	2,319	3,197	2,873
Canada	9,318	9,077	8,690	8,385	9,492	9,346	7,829	9,379	11,059	8,423
Cayman Islands	15	29	17	13	30	20	23	23	35	20
Central African Republic	34	56	54	44	52	80	61	73	120	82
Chad	50	69	64	74	84	105	78	72	90	56
Chile	1,527	1,586	1,649	1,435	1,486	1,666	1,620	1,752	1,784	1,329
China, People's Republic	32,864	31,868	35,387	30,284	31,241	35,794	37,674	39,600	39,490	26,110
Colombia	22,693	23,972	22,196	16,478	17,207	18,601	16,184	17,564	17,126	12,768
Congo, Democratic Republic	908	1,173	1,250	1,246	1,490	1,707	1,437	1,776	2,877	2,482
Congo, Republic	345	381	402	438	473	395	322	316	351	191
Costa Rica	1,511	1,597	1,661	1,461	1,633	1,862	1,720	1,860	1,859	1,394
Cote d'Ivoire	694	868	958	910	1,078	1,127	907	908	1,206	1,012
Croatia	569	725	561	428	563	438	351	371	412	271
Cuba	21,071	31,244	30,482	24,092	25,770	32,101	25,961	32,089	36,246	31,369
Curacao	-	-	-	11	17	13	16	20	30	28
Cyprus	115	92	112	112	107	105	84	125	115	81
Czechia	485	477	562	565	733	692	595	644	600	426
Czechoslovakia (former)	310	291	232	303	371	344	251	260	325	206
Denmark	124	133	127	129	243	1,193	769	650	656	508
Djibouti	22	26	39	26	26	52	48	65	96	94
Dominica	594	597	642	520	653	610	539	612	740	391
Dominican Republic	20,508	33,351	39,590	23,775	26,665	31,320	29,734	22,970	23,101	18,675
Ecuador	6,929	8,783	9,470	6,952	7,664	8,568	7,748	7,996	7,731	5,204
Egypt	5,848	6,191	6,213	5,094	5,693	5,696	5,154	6,549	8,311	6,336
El Salvador	13,834	16,685	18,401	15,598	16,930	17,213	16,941	17,300	18,260	12,606
Equatorial Guinea	9	19	14	12	14	18	8	9	15	18
Eritrea	985	1,059	1,145	1,045	1,494	1,797	1,424	1,457	1,951	1,597
Estonia	217	234	213	183	208	183	157	190	210	157
Eswatini	15	10	15	7	12	8	16	13	25	D
Ethiopia	8,519	8,803	8,323	7,002	8,312	8,725	7,370	6,769	9,065	7,385
Fiji	1,118	1,134	1,003	770	850	996	841	875	778	624
Finland	344	329	300	274	301	303	279	283	343	250
France	2,527	2,358	2,534	2,589	2,784	2,841	2,812	2,854	3,315	2,553
French Polynesia	14	15	8	20	14	18	14	13	18	15
Gabon	53	80	72	63	89	83	67	81	113	87
Gambia	505	556	573	510	685	724	586	650	729	610
Georgia	1,253	1,271	1,205	898	1,027	988	889	751	973	709
Germany	4,461	4,192	4,066	4,375	4,380	4,329	3,879	4,284	4,745	3,162
Ghana	4,690	5,344	5,105	5,108	6,033	6,411	5,777	6,047	6,936	4,973
Greece	844	867	938	780	867	1,013	945	1,074	1,137	828
Grenada	528	683	717	544	664	658	629	463	640	478
Guatemala	7,285	8,797	9,530	8,549	9,344	9,764	9,131	9,566	8,948	6,421
Guinea	575	787	958	908	999	1,077	957	924	1,069	771
Guinea-Bissau	29	30	24	27	29	20	25	28	23	20
Guyana	5,413	6,201	6,295	4,327	5,162	5,284	4,527	4,625	5,089	3,631
Haiti	14,191	19,114	23,480	13,676	14,053	15,276	12,794	14,389	14,308	10,865
Honduras	3,980	5,294	5,462	4,433	5,039	5,819	5,310	5,645	6,353	5,150
Hong Kong	2,184	1,980	2,093	1,801	1,716	1,662	1,623	1,768	1,924	1,545
Hungary	953	1,014	984	891	941	934	729	922	983	754
Iceland	76	97	75	70	88	88	83	69	101	69
India	45,985	42,928	49,897	37,854	42,213	46,188	50,802	52,194	64,631	48,109
Indonesia	2,345	2,123	2,190	1,568	1,743	1,641	1,566	1,807	2,093	1,359
Iran	9,286	9,627	11,623	9,620	10,344	9,507	8,324	8,409	11,310	8,828
Iraq	3,360	3,523	7,771	12,377	14,899	12,130	7,875	12,448	18,366	12,321
Ireland	1,171	1,239	1,295	1,413	1,375	1,383	1,405	1,621	1,698	1,179
Israel	3,153	2,859	3,466	3,015	3,182	3,071	2,466	2,743	3,265	2,363
Italy	2,231	2,234	2,355	2,313	2,760	2,692	2,501	2,920	3,244	2,324
Jamaica	14,591	15,531	16,442	13,547	16,566	16,772	15,087	17,213	18,010	13,465
Japan	1,744	1,663	1,837	1,635	1,858	1,758	1,713	1,869	1,969	1,584
Jordan	2,345	2,436	2,816	2,427	2,461	2,552	2,239	2,630	3,430	2,607
Kazakhstan	891	1,040	909	789	819	760	729	823	1,147	803
Kenya	3,621	4,170	4,257	3,885	4,738	4,834	4,348	4,302	5,329	4,186
Korea, North	13	19	27	24	23	16	15	30	25	17
Korea, South	12,664	13,790	15,786	13,587	14,230	14,347	14,643	16,031	16,298	11,350
Kosovo	465	510	487	392	547	530	410	451	597	482
Kuwait	869	820	920	791	819	790	677	789	1,111	840
Kyrgyzstan	440	420	395	305	418	408	412	483	534	411
Laos	5,452	7,027	3,932	2,564	2,042	1,999	1,726	2,027	2,303	1,704
Latvia	401	392	364	366	392	356	306	315	365	241
Lebanon	3,127	2,914	3,002	2,528	2,463	2,284	2,081	2,339	2,683	1,715
Lesotho	11	7	10	8	11	9	8	9	18	7
Liberia	3,794	4,322	3,923	3,035	3,042	3,022	2,421	2,752	3,334	2,429
Libya	180	195	206	228	193	210	207	308	447	309
Lithuania	973	938	933	744	752	626	584	699	885	529
Luxembourg	18	23	16	34	20	18	14	20	23	20
Macau	86	106	97	102	109	101	70	79	92	61
Madagascar	44	37	50	50	65	75	61	53	63	47
Malawi	86	85	83	76	91	95	84	114	120	91
Malaysia	1,137	1,150	1,169	1,052	1,113	1,189	1,170	1,388	1,406	942
Mali	274	288	332	352	405	456	391	398	446	390
Malta	54	44	59	40	50	43	47	51	49	37
Marshall Islands	32	21	17	20	22	27	16	21	15	13
Mauritania	405	495	520	376	355	323	288	252	319	188
Mauritius	64	57	67	69	60	63	65	70	67	55
Mexico	94,783	102,181	99,385	94,889	105,958	103,550	118,559	131,977	122,286	84,081
Micronesia, Federated States	74	73	96	62	85	67	53	34	39	26
Moldova	1,398	1,602	1,594	1,279	1,681	1,689	1,442	1,680	2,010	1,494
Mongolia	242	286	347	335	324	437	416	468	541	426
Montenegro	205	227	231	202	209	222	187	205	254	162
Montserrat	63	51	65	47	43	45	45	52	50	37
Morocco	3,656	3,872	3,768	3,538	3,805	3,684	2,943	2,644	3,142	2,462
Mozambique	49	48	51	34	43	51	38	43	63	32
Namibia	29	42	40	31	42	33	27	29	61	39
Nepal	2,235	2,448	2,711	2,888	4,225	5,004	4,509	5,352	7,409	5,793
Netherlands	778	919	786	665	778	829	699	851	953	667
Netherlands Antilles (former)	60	76	82	43	35	45	42	48	56	48
New Zealand	480	563	482	453	514	565	468	577	668	577
Nicaragua	5,092	5,870	5,064	3,775	3,951	4,663	4,181	4,277	4,346	3,474
Niger	124	143	167	161	180	140	126	110	143	112
Nigeria	9,344	9,322	9,545	8,667	10,363	9,520	7,652	8,459	11,360	8,929
North Macedonia	578	635	665	625	611	704	582	669	800	577
Norway	90	87	80	92	80	93	60	93	111	270
Oman	37	48	39	41	47	58	30	44	68	66
Pakistan	10,655	11,150	12,948	11,210	11,912	11,729	10,166	10,414	13,079	9,975
Palau	68	72	64	50	44	43	32	28	32	23
Panama	1,340	1,532	1,598	1,277	1,412	1,458	1,266	1,308	1,361	989
Papua New Guinea	17	16	20	7	21	19	13	17	19	20
Paraguay	289	338	331	256	338	396	343	401	387	278
Peru	10,266	11,814	11,782	9,572	10,701	11,319	10,014	10,043	9,899	6,910
Philippines	42,520	44,958	43,489	34,591	40,815	41,285	36,828	38,816	43,668	33,417
Poland	8,844	8,715	8,697	8,304	7,886	7,198	5,840	6,370	6,973	4,653
Portugal	1,426	1,607	1,585	1,587	1,690	1,665	1,807	2,031	1,712	1,081
Qatar	101	101	107	69	75	98	95	92	105	120
Romania	4,314	4,253	4,050	3,267	3,478	3,379	2,986	3,104	3,627	2,320
Russia	8,257	8,154	8,222	6,824	6,552	6,067	5,534	6,225	7,628	5,360
Rwanda	265	285	374	302	300	369	267	343	466	410
Saint Kitts and Nevis	306	319	315	270	360	345	317	281	335	211
Saint Lucia	600	724	856	635	775	791	697	604	758	574
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	416	511	574	405	467	500	507	401	528	363
Samoa	172	178	206	181	213	192	164	168	239	159
Saudi Arabia	814	779	927	795	796	869	872	990	1,313	998
Senegal	752	790	869	806	974	969	882	848	956	742
Serbia	85	109	117	276	522	532	476	596	829	569
Serbia and Montenegro (former)	2,185	2,012	1,830	1,338	1,297	1,164	820	805	820	494
Seychelles	19	8	15	9	7	17	5	11	D	13
Sierra Leone	1,831	1,861	1,613	1,406	1,692	1,662	1,328	1,177	1,604	1,319
Singapore	311	293	263	258	285	308	279	332	359	255
Sint Maarten	-	-	-	7	17	33	21	22	D	D
Slovakia	421	401	413	317	443	428	384	394	432	275
Slovenia	57	64	58	52	61	63	52	57	68	68
Somalia	7,971	9,286	6,875	4,097	3,691	3,998	3,774	3,979	6,915	5,684
South Africa	2,566	2,294	2,283	2,083	2,538	2,197	1,901	2,262	2,967	2,084
South Sudan	-	81	139	132	131	101	74	109	146	101
Soviet Union (former)	2,812	2,610	2,807	2,334	2,372	2,268	2,123	2,252	2,280	1,589
Spain	1,253	1,242	1,367	1,326	1,414	1,515	1,469	1,674	1,945	1,517
Sri Lanka	1,334	1,146	1,258	1,104	1,246	1,497	1,364	1,480	1,609	1,140
Sudan	2,444	2,291	1,924	1,482	1,740	1,776	1,348	1,611	2,527	1,753
Suriname	194	189	160	127	183	164	143	176	170	91
Sweden	872	798	783	724	885	795	708	797	936	731
Switzerland	427	427	452	388	411	375	333	436	488	365
Syria	1,981	1,814	2,196	1,832	2,004	2,043	1,789	2,475	3,364	2,455
Taiwan	5,065	4,573	5,255	4,326	4,420	4,043	4,151	4,576	4,821	3,422
Tajikistan	155	142	168	146	156	212	222	261	364	251
Tanzania	516	543	647	525	553	639	547	561	731	530
Thailand	5,299	6,585	5,544	4,805	5,213	5,211	4,672	5,324	6,678	5,572
Togo	1,523	1,448	1,380	1,141	1,171	1,099	907	893	1,054	927
Tonga	251	306	371	473	352	337	262	319	354	300
Trinidad and Tobago	5,014	5,596	5,784	4,147	4,869	4,867	4,504	4,378	4,592	3,027
Tunisia	377	345	362	310	314	352	344	306	393	295
Turkey	3,100	3,329	3,390	2,925	3,150	3,201	3,108	3,275	3,289	2,305
Turkmenistan	146	136	160	110	153	102	109	117	203	122
Turks and Caicos Islands	36	49	47	26	33	31	26	40	28	28
Uganda	838	820	763	724	817	823	742	703	922	727
Ukraine	8,489	9,459	8,624	6,984	8,926	8,374	6,644	6,990	8,019	5,444
United Arab Emirates	425	431	499	435	443	473	475	542	730	545
United Kingdom	9,246	9,145	9,459	8,906	10,095	9,562	9,049	10,530	12,195	8,842
United States	45	60	55	31	75	95	84	122	174	163
Uruguay	751	849	933	812	902	1,044	1,028	1,073	1,088	822
Uzbekistan	2,463	3,071	2,482	1,725	1,660	1,685	1,498	1,532	1,950	1,482
Venezuela	6,856	7,404	7,648	6,871	8,192	7,633	6,463	8,172	9,317	6,993
Vietnam	20,922	23,490	24,277	18,837	21,976	24,848	19,323	21,082	25,646	22,705
Virgin Islands, British	48	41	45	49	59	46	42	54	59	45
Yemen	1,320	1,452	1,355	1,160	1,284	1,490	1,445	1,544	2,509	2,158
Zambia	337	338	352	318	370	404	401	402	501	340
Zimbabwe	715	691	658	734	852	843	675	709	810	559
All other countries ^[1]	45	40	41	41	41	42	38	42	63	50
Unknown	337	359	201	142	89	26	206	634	394	233

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