Table 21. Persons Naturalized by Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Years 2013 to 2022

By Region of Birth

Region of birth	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Total	779,929	653,416	730,259	753,060	707,265	761,901	843,593	628,254	813,861	969,380
Africa	71,872	62,175	71,492	72,339	61,864	64,999	85,014	66,450	76,009	106,094
Asia	275,700	233,163	261,374	271,733	255,382	275,822	327,434	246,215	295,224	361,176
Europe	80,333	71,325	78,074	74,345	65,166	71,483	81,051	57,410	77,085	92,242
North America	271,807	222,547	247,492	259,845	258,394	277,822	276,969	204,269	288,431	324,409
Oceania	3,849	3,399	3,811	3,953	3,328	3,794	4,311	3,393	4,304	5,260
South America	76,167	60,665	67,927	70,821	63,065	67,934	68,687	50,442	72,701	79,982
Unknown	201	142	89	24	66	47	127	75	107	217

By Country of Birth

Country of birth	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Total	779,929	653,416	730,259	753,060	707,265	761,901	843,593	628,254	813,861	969,380
Afghanistan	2,074	1,853	1,589	1,444	1,414	1,571	2,796	4,026	4,198	11,076
Albania	3,538	3,131	3,237	2,813	2,170	2,205	2,779	2,308	3,314	4,607
Algeria	841	928	943	1,035	949	919	1,235	1,063	1,417	2,118
American Samoa	265	187	296	285	216	182	281	177	173	256
Angola	143	145	132	131	125	147	136	94	137	217
Anguilla	26	18	31	16	20	34	25	19	26	28
Antigua and Barbuda	366	358	381	383	311	356	386	265	336	414
Argentina	4,177	3,683	3,886	4,015	3,486	3,978	3,958	2,884	3,968	4,163
Armenia	3,203	2,488	2,874	2,516	1,994	2,085	2,327	1,852	3,525	2,741
Aruba	42	28	37	28	32	33	54	37	33	48
Australia	1,296	1,159	1,379	1,389	1,235	1,545	1,838	1,436	2,042	2,213
Austria	248	223	207	221	177	238	214	160	169	202
Azerbaijan	786	585	568	574	483	512	597	451	568	741
Bahamas	681	545	570	590	481	591	640	481	697	758
Bahrain	76	90	79	80	77	86	116	79	107	134
Bangladesh	9,571	7,475	9,750	9,949	8,630	7,800	9,069	6,883	10,110	14,177
Barbados	683	550	646	651	645	556	625	399	641	668
Belarus	1,797	1,437	1,710	1,518	1,313	1,393	1,730	1,302	1,676	2,163
Belgium	513	408	505	514	493	521	575	430	515	608
Belize	966	773	851	870	810	859	951	669	1,051	1,114
Benin	206	229	310	317	309	249	343	297	354	539
Bermuda	59	67	66	61	65	70	64	52	64	83
Bhutan	275	2,639	4,562	5,563	5,558	6,193	6,921	4,536	3,939	4,332
Bolivia	1,961	1,527	1,689	1,862	1,806	1,575	1,679	1,208	1,601	1,753
Bosnia and Herzegovina	3,662	2,509	3,304	2,257	1,780	1,808	1,710	1,059	1,197	1,742
Botswana	29	24	28	29	27	38	41	34	47	60
Brazil	9,565	8,625	10,516	10,268	9,702	10,547	10,451	8,323	12,448	13,203
Brunei	11	15	13	10	11	15	26	19	20	25
Bulgaria	2,646	2,226	2,336	2,086	1,887	1,826	2,251	1,656	2,134	2,182
Burkina Faso	230	235	307	322	303	347	426	376	510	569
Burma	3,489	4,225	6,045	6,956	6,827	7,869	11,680	9,183	8,195	9,277
Burundi	379	415	437	406	266	285	394	280	382	553
Cabo Verde	1,014	979	1,054	1,207	1,355	1,433	1,317	931	1,378	1,673
Cambodia	4,161	2,866	2,878	2,756	2,184	2,468	2,877	2,405	2,397	3,183
Cameroon	2,541	2,120	3,170	3,088	2,417	2,322	3,198	2,873	3,418	4,336
Canada	8,690	8,385	9,492	9,346	7,829	9,383	11,061	8,423	10,928	12,565
Cayman Islands	17	13	30	20	23	23	35	20	35	35
Central African Republic	54	44	52	80	61	73	121	82	102	170
Chad	64	74	84	105	78	72	90	56	67	105
Chile	1,649	1,435	1,486	1,666	1,620	1,753	1,784	1,329	1,769	1,862
China, People's Republic	35,387	30,284	31,241	35,794	37,683	39,617	39,492	26,111	29,227	27,038
Colombia	22,196	16,478	17,207	18,601	16,185	17,576	17,128	12,768	17,539	18,089
Congo, Democratic Republic	1,250	1,246	1,490	1,707	1,437	1,780	2,878	2,487	3,313	6,438
Congo, Republic	402	438	473	395	322	321	352	191	240	353
Costa Rica	1,661	1,461	1,633	1,862	1,720	1,860	1,860	1,394	1,934	2,026
Cote d'Ivoire	958	910	1,078	1,127	907	909	1,206	1,012	1,220	1,684
Croatia	561	428	563	438	351	371	412	271	397	502
Cuba	30,482	24,092	25,770	32,101	25,964	32,111	36,253	31,371	47,919	46,913
Curacao	0	11	17	13	16	20	30	28	27	33
Cyprus	112	112	107	105	84	125	115	81	107	142
Czechia	562	565	733	692	595	644	600	426	505	591
Czechoslovakia (former)	232	303	371	344	251	260	325	206	213	245
Denmark	127	129	243	1,193	769	650	656	508	625	691
Djibouti	39	26	26	52	48	65	96	94	103	170
Dominica	642	520	653	610	540	614	740	391	515	706
Dominican Republic	39,590	23,775	26,665	31,320	29,734	22,988	23,105	18,675	28,103	34,525
Ecuador	9,470	6,952	7,664	8,568	7,748	7,999	7,734	5,204	8,145	10,100
Egypt	6,213	5,094	5,693	5,697	5,156	6,557	8,313	6,337	7,207	8,632
El Salvador	18,401	15,598	16,930	17,213	16,942	17,316	18,263	12,606	18,340	21,453
Equatorial Guinea	14	12	14	18	8	9	15	18	9	27
Eritrea	1,145	1,045	1,494	1,797	1,425	1,457	1,953	1,597	1,407	2,483
Estonia	213	183	208	183	157	190	210	157	173	224
Eswatini	15	7	12	8	16	13	25	D	19	19
Ethiopia	8,323	7,002	8,312	8,725	7,372	6,769	9,066	7,386	7,038	10,858
Fiji	1,003	770	850	996	842	875	779	624	718	1,180
Finland	300	274	301	303	279	283	343	250	353	438
France	2,534	2,589	2,784	2,842	2,813	2,856	3,317	2,553	3,610	4,351
French Polynesia	8	20	14	18	14	13	18	15	13	30
Gabon	72	63	89	83	67	81	113	87	131	133
Gambia	573	510	685	724	586	651	730	610	826	1,072
Georgia	1,205	898	1,027	988	889	751	973	709	1,099	1,402
Germany	4,066	4,375	4,380	4,329	3,879	4,288	4,745	3,163	3,248	4,218
Ghana	5,105	5,108	6,033	6,411	5,779	6,051	6,938	4,974	6,077	7,588
Greece	938	780	867	1,013	945	1,075	1,137	828	1,164	1,452
Grenada	717	544	664	658	629	463	640	478	642	748
Guatemala	9,530	8,549	9,344	9,764	9,132	9,573	8,948	6,421	9,532	10,912
Guinea	958	908	999	1,077	957	924	1,069	772	1,016	1,315
Guinea-Bissau	24	27	29	20	25	28	23	20	45	49
Guyana	6,295	4,327	5,162	5,284	4,527	4,632	5,089	3,632	5,338	6,872
Haiti	23,480	13,676	14,053	15,276	12,795	14,412	14,314	10,867	14,882	18,001
Honduras	5,462	4,433	5,039	5,819	5,310	5,650	6,354	5,151	7,015	8,403
Hong Kong	2,093	1,801	1,716	1,662	1,623	1,769	1,925	1,545	2,413	2,463
Hungary	984	891	941	934	729	922	983	754	1,047	1,038
Iceland	75	70	88	88	83	69	101	69	99	100
India	49,897	37,854	42,213	46,188	50,830	52,228	64,638	48,111	57,043	65,960
Indonesia	2,190	1,568	1,743	1,641	1,566	1,808	2,093	1,359	1,638	1,660
Iran	11,623	9,620	10,344	9,507	8,327	8,413	11,311	8,830	10,798	15,752
Iraq	7,771	12,377	14,899	12,130	7,876	12,456	18,368	12,323	7,695	11,503
Ireland	1,295	1,413	1,375	1,383	1,405	1,621	1,698	1,179	1,726	2,026
Israel	3,466	3,015	3,182	3,071	2,473	2,751	3,303	2,391	3,454	3,709
Italy	2,355	2,313	2,760	2,692	2,501	2,924	3,244	2,324	3,318	3,910
Jamaica	16,442	13,547	16,566	16,772	15,087	17,235	18,019	13,466	20,716	22,963
Japan	1,837	1,635	1,858	1,758	1,713	1,869	1,970	1,584	1,901	2,033
Jordan	2,816	2,427	2,461	2,552	2,244	2,646	3,504	2,676	3,036	4,559
Kazakhstan	909	789	819	760	729	824	1,147	803	1,074	1,243
Kenya	4,257	3,885	4,738	4,834	4,349	4,302	5,329	4,186	4,715	6,090
Korea, North	27	24	23	16	15	30	25	17	16	21
Korea, South	15,786	13,587	14,230	14,347	14,647	16,040	16,299	11,350	14,996	14,880
Kosovo	487	392	547	530	410	451	597	482	622	866
Kuwait	920	791	819	790	677	789	1,111	840	826	1,189
Kyrgyzstan	395	305	418	408	412	484	535	411	565	763
Laos	3,932	2,564	2,042	1,999	1,726	2,029	2,306	1,704	1,874	1,829
Latvia	364	366	392	356	306	315	365	241	297	351
Lebanon	3,002	2,528	2,463	2,284	2,083	2,341	2,683	1,715	2,213	2,957
Lesotho	10	8	11	9	8	9	18	7	24	18
Liberia	3,923	3,035	3,042	3,022	2,422	2,754	3,335	2,429	2,892	4,542
Libya	206	228	193	210	207	308	447	309	348	495
Lithuania	933	744	752	626	584	699	885	529	652	686
Luxembourg	16	34	20	18	14	20	23	20	24	37
Macau	97	102	109	101	70	79	92	61	106	111
Madagascar	50	50	65	75	61	53	63	47	66	94
Malawi	83	76	91	95	84	114	120	91	138	168
Malaysia	1,169	1,052	1,113	1,189	1,170	1,388	1,407	942	1,217	1,387
Mali	332	352	405	456	392	398	446	390	466	575
Malta	59	40	50	43	47	51	49	37	42	51
Marshall Islands	17	20	22	27	16	21	15	13	21	18
Mauritania	520	376	355	323	288	253	319	188	234	280
Mauritius	67	69	60	63	65	70	67	55	89	103
Mexico	99,385	94,889	105,958	103,550	118,569	132,074	122,305	84,090	113,269	128,878
Micronesia, Federated States	96	62	85	67	53	34	39	26	29	43
Moldova	1,594	1,279	1,681	1,689	1,442	1,681	2,010	1,494	1,887	2,791
Mongolia	347	335	324	437	416	468	541	426	559	672
Montenegro	231	202	209	222	192	206	254	162	244	297
Montserrat	65	47	43	45	45	52	50	37	55	49
Morocco	3,768	3,538	3,805	3,684	2,943	2,646	3,143	2,462	3,179	3,885
Mozambique	51	34	43	51	38	44	63	32	55	75
Namibia	40	31	42	33	27	29	61	39	43	60
Nepal	2,711	2,888	4,225	5,004	4,511	5,358	7,412	5,794	7,232	9,408
Netherlands	786	665	778	829	700	852	953	668	829	918
Netherlands Antilles (former)	82	43	35	45	46	50	58	52	48	36
New Zealand	482	453	514	565	468	578	668	577	693	789
Nicaragua	5,064	3,775	3,951	4,663	4,182	4,285	4,347	3,474	4,185	4,609
Niger	167	161	180	140	126	110	143	112	154	172
Nigeria	9,545	8,667	10,363	9,520	7,652	8,469	11,364	8,930	10,921	14,438
North Macedonia	665	625	611	704	582	669	800	577	795	1,074
Norway	80	92	80	93	60	93	111	270	719	677
Oman	39	41	47	58	30	44	68	66	61	87
Pakistan	12,948	11,210	11,912	11,729	10,168	10,418	13,080	9,975	12,377	18,006
Palau	64	50	44	43	32	28	32	24	29	32
Panama	1,598	1,277	1,412	1,458	1,266	1,308	1,362	989	1,322	1,357
Papua New Guinea	20	7	21	19	13	17	19	20	19	14
Paraguay	331	256	338	396	343	401	387	278	404	389
Peru	11,782	9,572	10,701	11,319	10,014	10,047	9,901	6,910	10,095	10,822
Philippines	43,489	34,591	40,815	41,285	36,830	38,836	43,675	33,422	48,478	53,413
Poland	8,697	8,304	7,886	7,198	5,841	6,372	6,974	4,653	6,741	7,069
Portugal	1,585	1,587	1,690	1,665	1,807	2,035	1,712	1,081	1,555	1,896
Qatar	107	69	75	98	95	92	105	120	140	161
Romania	4,050	3,267	3,478	3,379	2,986	3,106	3,627	2,320	3,117	3,327
Russia	8,222	6,824	6,552	6,067	5,536	6,225	7,629	5,361	7,303	8,654
Rwanda	374	302	300	369	267	343	466	410	502	877
Saint Kitts and Nevis	315	270	360	345	317	281	335	211	253	357
Saint Lucia	856	635	775	791	697	604	758	574	817	844
Saint Martin (French)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	19
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	574	405	467	500	507	402	528	363	479	510
Samoa	206	181	213	192	164	169	239	159	201	230
Saudi Arabia	927	795	796	869	872	992	1,313	998	1,382	1,915
Senegal	869	806	974	969	882	849	957	742	1,057	1,361
Serbia	117	276	522	532	476	596	831	571	936	1,226
Serbia and Montenegro (former)	1,830	1,338	1,297	1,164	832	812	822	495	618	664
Seychelles	15	9	7	17	5	11	D	13	13	13
Sierra Leone	1,613	1,406	1,692	1,662	1,328	1,179	1,605	1,320	1,324	1,981
Singapore	263	258	285	308	279	332	359	255	301	386
Sint Maarten	0	7	17	33	21	22	D	D	18	38
Slovakia	413	317	443	428	384	394	432	275	424	466
Slovenia	58	52	61	63	52	57	68	68	69	103
Somalia	6,875	4,097	3,691	3,998	3,774	3,983	6,915	5,685	4,601	7,699
South Africa	2,283	2,083	2,538	2,197	1,901	2,268	2,967	2,084	2,442	3,002
South Sudan	139	132	131	101	74	109	146	101	122	178
Soviet Union (former)	2,807	2,334	2,372	2,268	2,123	2,253	2,280	1,589	2,106	2,376
Spain	1,367	1,326	1,414	1,515	1,469	1,674	1,945	1,517	2,342	2,577
Sri Lanka	1,258	1,104	1,246	1,497	1,364	1,481	1,609	1,140	1,577	1,936
Sudan	1,924	1,482	1,740	1,776	1,348	1,613	2,528	1,753	1,798	3,303
Suriname	160	127	183	164	143	176	170	91	156	194
Sweden	783	724	885	795	708	797	936	731	1,039	1,115
Switzerland	452	388	411	375	333	436	488	365	459	544
Syria	2,196	1,832	2,004	2,043	1,789	2,476	3,365	2,455	3,570	9,896
Taiwan	5,255	4,326	4,420	4,043	4,152	4,578	4,821	3,422	5,189	5,559
Tajikistan	168	146	156	212	222	261	364	251	384	528
Tanzania	647	525	553	639	547	561	731	530	563	866
Thailand	5,544	4,805	5,213	5,211	4,672	5,327	6,678	5,573	6,602	6,502
Togo	1,380	1,141	1,171	1,099	907	893	1,055	927	1,124	1,483
Tonga	371	473	352	337	262	319	354	300	345	421
Trinidad and Tobago	5,784	4,147	4,869	4,867	4,505	4,379	4,593	3,027	4,189	4,832
Tunisia	362	310	314	352	344	306	393	295	404	509
Turkey	3,390	2,925	3,150	3,201	3,111	3,280	3,289	2,305	3,496	4,725
Turkmenistan	160	110	153	102	109	117	203	122	171	228
Turks and Caicos Islands	47	26	33	31	26	40	28	28	43	45
Uganda	763	724	817	823	742	703	922	727	1,020	1,296
Ukraine	8,624	6,984	8,926	8,374	6,645	6,995	8,020	5,444	7,351	10,179
United Arab Emirates	499	435	443	473	475	542	730	545	745	966
United Kingdom	9,459	8,906	10,095	9,562	9,050	10,535	12,195	8,842	11,407	12,975
United States	55	31	75	95	84	122	174	163	251	392
Uruguay	933	812	902	1,044	1,028	1,074	1,088	822	1,022	1,038
Uzbekistan	2,482	1,725	1,660	1,685	1,498	1,534	1,950	1,482	2,026	3,030
Venezuela	7,648	6,871	8,192	7,633	6,463	8,176	9,317	6,993	10,215	11,497
Vietnam	24,277	18,837	21,976	24,848	19,326	21,102	25,652	22,707	24,224	33,246
Virgin Islands, British	45	49	59	46	42	54	60	45	58	46
Yemen	1,355	1,160	1,284	1,490	1,445	1,545	2,509	2,158	2,350	4,212
Zambia	352	318	370	404	402	403	501	340	453	503
Zimbabwe	658	734	852	843	676	710	811	560	784	855
All other countries ^[1]	41	41	41	42	38	42	63	51	67	93
Unknown	201	142	89	24	66	47	127	75	107	217

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