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Table 21. Persons Naturalized by Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Years 2014 to 2023

By Region of Birth

Region of birth	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Total	653,420	730,260	753,060	707,270	761,900	843,590	628,250	813,860	969,380	878,460
Africa	62,180	71,490	72,340	61,860	65,000	85,010	66,450	76,010	106,090	95,330
Asia	233,160	261,370	271,730	255,380	275,820	327,430	246,220	295,220	361,180	329,260
Europe	71,330	78,070	74,350	65,170	71,480	81,050	57,410	77,090	92,240	82,040
North America	222,550	247,490	259,850	258,390	277,820	276,970	204,270	288,430	324,410	284,350
Oceania	3,400	3,810	3,950	3,330	3,790	4,310	3,390	4,300	5,260	4,610
South America	60,670	67,930	70,820	63,070	67,930	68,690	50,440	72,700	79,980	74,120
Unknown	140	90	20	70	50	130	80	110	220	8,750

By Country of Birth

Country of birth	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Total	653,420	730,260	753,060	707,270	761,900	843,590	628,250	813,860	969,380	878,460
Afghanistan	1,850	1,590	1,440	1,410	1,570	2,800	4,030	4,200	11,080	10,570
Albania	3,130	3,240	2,810	2,170	2,210	2,780	2,310	3,310	4,610	4,400
Algeria	930	940	1,040	950	920	1,240	1,060	1,420	2,120	1,950
American Samoa	190	300	290	220	180	280	180	170	260	240
Angola	150	130	130	130	150	140	90	140	220	190
Anguilla	20	30	20	20	30	30	20	30	30	30
Antigua and Barbuda	360	380	380	310	360	390	270	340	410	320
Argentina	3,680	3,890	4,020	3,490	3,980	3,960	2,880	3,970	4,160	3,660
Armenia	2,490	2,870	2,520	1,990	2,090	2,330	1,850	3,530	2,740	2,990
Aruba	30	40	30	30	30	50	40	30	50	30
Australia	1,160	1,380	1,390	1,240	1,550	1,840	1,440	2,040	2,210	2,100
Austria	220	210	220	180	240	210	160	170	200	200
Azerbaijan	590	570	570	480	510	600	450	570	740	750
Bahamas	550	570	590	480	590	640	480	700	760	680
Bahrain	90	80	80	80	90	120	80	110	130	140
Bangladesh	7,480	9,750	9,950	8,630	7,800	9,070	6,880	10,110	14,180	12,640
Barbados	550	650	650	650	560	630	400	640	670	520
Belarus	1,440	1,710	1,520	1,310	1,390	1,730	1,300	1,680	2,160	2,110
Belgium	410	510	510	490	520	580	430	520	610	590
Belize	770	850	870	810	860	950	670	1,050	1,110	910
Benin	230	310	320	310	250	340	300	350	540	510
Bermuda	70	70	60	70	70	60	50	60	80	80
Bhutan	2,640	4,560	5,560	5,560	6,190	6,920	4,540	3,940	4,330	4,250
Bolivia	1,530	1,690	1,860	1,810	1,580	1,680	1,210	1,600	1,750	1,650
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2,510	3,300	2,260	1,780	1,810	1,710	1,060	1,200	1,740	1,640
Botswana	20	30	30	30	40	40	30	50	60	70
Brazil	8,630	10,520	10,270	9,700	10,550	10,450	8,320	12,450	13,200	12,980
Brunei	20	10	10	10	20	30	20	20	30	30
Bulgaria	2,230	2,340	2,090	1,890	1,830	2,250	1,660	2,130	2,180	1,740
Burkina Faso	240	310	320	300	350	430	380	510	570	560
Burma	4,230	6,050	6,960	6,830	7,870	11,680	9,180	8,200	9,280	9,890
Burundi	420	440	410	270	290	390	280	380	550	590
Cabo Verde	980	1,050	1,210	1,360	1,430	1,320	930	1,380	1,670	1,830
Cambodia	2,870	2,880	2,760	2,180	2,470	2,880	2,410	2,400	3,180	3,260
Cameroon	2,120	3,170	3,090	2,420	2,320	3,200	2,870	3,420	4,340	3,940
Canada	8,390	9,490	9,350	7,830	9,380	11,060	8,420	10,930	12,570	11,320
Cayman Islands	10	30	20	20	20	40	20	40	40	40
Central African Republic	40	50	80	60	70	120	80	100	170	190
Chad	70	80	110	80	70	90	60	70	110	90
Chile	1,440	1,490	1,670	1,620	1,750	1,780	1,330	1,770	1,860	1,750
China, People's Republic	30,280	31,240	35,790	37,680	39,620	39,490	26,110	29,230	27,040	30,750
Colombia	16,480	17,210	18,600	16,190	17,580	17,130	12,770	17,540	18,090	17,090
Congo, Democratic Republic	1,250	1,490	1,710	1,440	1,780	2,880	2,490	3,310	6,440	1,360
Congo, Republic	440	470	400	320	320	350	190	240	350	350
Costa Rica	1,460	1,630	1,860	1,720	1,860	1,860	1,390	1,930	2,030	1,970
Cote d'Ivoire	910	1,080	1,130	910	910	1,210	1,010	1,220	1,680	1,530
Croatia	430	560	440	350	370	410	270	400	500	400
Cuba	24,090	25,770	32,100	25,960	32,110	36,250	31,370	47,920	46,910	33,190
Curacao	10	20	10	20	20	30	30	30	30	40
Cyprus	110	110	110	80	130	120	80	110	140	130
Czechia	570	730	690	600	640	600	430	510	590	470
Czechoslovakia (former)	300	370	340	250	260	330	210	210	250	210
Denmark	130	240	1,190	770	650	660	510	630	690	520
Djibouti	30	30	50	50	70	100	90	100	170	160
Dominica	520	650	610	540	610	740	390	520	710	530
Dominican Republic	23,780	26,670	31,320	29,730	22,990	23,110	18,680	28,100	34,530	35,220
Ecuador	6,950	7,660	8,570	7,750	8,000	7,730	5,200	8,150	10,100	9,640
Egypt	5,090	5,690	5,700	5,160	6,560	8,310	6,340	7,210	8,630	8,100
El Salvador	15,600	16,930	17,210	16,940	17,320	18,260	12,610	18,340	21,450	21,090
Equatorial Guinea	10	10	20	10	10	20	20	10	30	30
Eritrea	1,050	1,490	1,800	1,430	1,460	1,950	1,600	1,410	2,480	2,900
Estonia	180	210	180	160	190	210	160	170	220	190
Eswatini	10	10	10	20	10	30	10	20	20	10
Ethiopia	7,000	8,310	8,730	7,370	6,770	9,070	7,390	7,040	10,860	10,750
Fiji	770	850	1,000	840	880	780	620	720	1,180	900
Finland	270	300	300	280	280	340	250	350	440	350
France	2,590	2,780	2,840	2,810	2,860	3,320	2,550	3,610	4,350	4,010
French Polynesia	20	10	20	10	10	20	20	10	30	20
Gabon	60	90	80	70	80	110	90	130	130	160
Gambia	510	690	720	590	650	730	610	830	1,070	1,000
Georgia	900	1,030	990	890	750	970	710	1,100	1,400	1,350
Germany	4,380	4,380	4,330	3,880	4,290	4,750	3,160	3,250	4,220	3,830
Ghana	5,110	6,030	6,410	5,780	6,050	6,940	4,970	6,080	7,590	7,070
Greece	780	870	1,010	950	1,080	1,140	830	1,160	1,450	1,300
Grenada	540	660	660	630	460	640	480	640	750	550
Guatemala	8,550	9,340	9,760	9,130	9,570	8,950	6,420	9,530	10,910	10,420
Guinea	910	1,000	1,080	960	920	1,070	770	1,020	1,320	1,120
Guinea-Bissau	30	30	20	30	30	20	20	50	50	40
Guyana	4,330	5,160	5,280	4,530	4,630	5,090	3,630	5,340	6,870	5,670
Haiti	13,680	14,050	15,280	12,800	14,410	14,310	10,870	14,880	18,000	16,100
Honduras	4,430	5,040	5,820	5,310	5,650	6,350	5,150	7,020	8,400	8,840
Hong Kong	1,800	1,720	1,660	1,620	1,770	1,930	1,550	2,410	2,460	1,820
Hungary	890	940	930	730	920	980	750	1,050	1,040	990
Iceland	70	90	90	80	70	100	70	100	100	80
India	37,850	42,210	46,190	50,830	52,230	64,640	48,110	57,040	65,960	59,050
Indonesia	1,570	1,740	1,640	1,570	1,810	2,090	1,360	1,640	1,660	1,510
Iran	9,620	10,340	9,510	8,330	8,410	11,310	8,830	10,800	15,750	11,870
Iraq	12,380	14,900	12,130	7,880	12,460	18,370	12,320	7,700	11,500	8,250
Ireland	1,410	1,380	1,380	1,410	1,620	1,700	1,180	1,730	2,030	1,640
Israel	3,020	3,180	3,070	2,470	2,750	3,300	2,390	3,450	3,710	3,470
Italy	2,310	2,760	2,690	2,500	2,920	3,240	2,320	3,320	3,910	3,500
Jamaica	13,550	16,570	16,770	15,090	17,240	18,020	13,470	20,720	22,960	20,190
Japan	1,640	1,860	1,760	1,710	1,870	1,970	1,580	1,900	2,030	1,390
Jordan	2,430	2,460	2,550	2,240	2,650	3,500	2,680	3,040	4,560	4,450
Kazakhstan	790	820	760	730	820	1,150	800	1,070	1,240	1,200
Kenya	3,890	4,740	4,830	4,350	4,300	5,330	4,190	4,720	6,090	5,820
Korea, North	20	20	20	20	30	30	20	20	20	20
Korea, South	13,590	14,230	14,350	14,650	16,040	16,300	11,350	15,000	14,880	12,330
Kosovo	390	550	530	410	450	600	480	620	870	880
Kuwait	790	820	790	680	790	1,110	840	830	1,190	1,010
Kyrgyzstan	310	420	410	410	480	540	410	570	760	700
Laos	2,560	2,040	2,000	1,730	2,030	2,310	1,700	1,870	1,830	2,040
Latvia	370	390	360	310	320	370	240	300	350	300
Lebanon	2,530	2,460	2,280	2,080	2,340	2,680	1,720	2,210	2,960	2,800
Lesotho	10	10	10	10	10	20	10	20	20	10
Liberia	3,040	3,040	3,020	2,420	2,750	3,340	2,430	2,890	4,540	4,260
Libya	230	190	210	210	310	450	310	350	500	480
Lithuania	740	750	630	580	700	890	530	650	690	590
Luxembourg	30	20	20	10	20	20	20	20	40	30
Macau	100	110	100	70	80	90	60	110	110	90
Madagascar	50	70	80	60	50	60	50	70	90	70
Malawi	80	90	100	80	110	120	90	140	170	160
Malaysia	1,050	1,110	1,190	1,170	1,390	1,410	940	1,220	1,390	1,120
Mali	350	410	460	390	400	450	390	470	580	470
Malta	40	50	40	50	50	50	40	40	50	30
Marshall Islands	20	20	30	20	20	20	10	20	20	30
Mauritania	380	360	320	290	250	320	190	230	280	300
Mauritius	70	60	60	70	70	70	60	90	100	90
Mexico	94,890	105,960	103,550	118,570	132,070	122,310	84,090	113,270	128,880	111,460
Micronesia, Federated States	60	90	70	50	30	40	30	30	40	60
Moldova	1,280	1,680	1,690	1,440	1,680	2,010	1,490	1,890	2,790	2,350
Mongolia	340	320	440	420	470	540	430	560	670	650
Montenegro	200	210	220	190	210	250	160	240	300	270
Montserrat	50	40	50	50	50	50	40	60	50	30
Morocco	3,540	3,810	3,680	2,940	2,650	3,140	2,460	3,180	3,890	3,470
Mozambique	30	40	50	40	40	60	30	60	80	60
Namibia	30	40	30	30	30	60	40	40	60	60
Nepal	2,890	4,230	5,000	4,510	5,360	7,410	5,790	7,230	9,410	9,300
Netherlands	670	780	830	700	850	950	670	830	920	870
Netherlands Antilles (former)	40	40	50	50	50	60	50	50	40	30
New Zealand	450	510	570	470	580	670	580	690	790	660
Nicaragua	3,780	3,950	4,660	4,180	4,290	4,350	3,470	4,190	4,610	3,860
Niger	160	180	140	130	110	140	110	150	170	170
Nigeria	8,670	10,360	9,520	7,650	8,470	11,360	8,930	10,920	14,440	13,530
North Macedonia	630	610	700	580	670	800	580	800	1,070	910
Norway	90	80	90	60	90	110	270	720	680	480
Oman	40	50	60	30	40	70	70	60	90	100
Pakistan	11,210	11,910	11,730	10,170	10,420	13,080	9,980	12,380	18,010	15,440
Palau	50	40	40	30	30	30	20	30	30	40
Panama	1,280	1,410	1,460	1,270	1,310	1,360	990	1,320	1,360	1,180
Papua New Guinea	10	20	20	10	20	20	20	20	10	20
Paraguay	260	340	400	340	400	390	280	400	390	360
Peru	9,570	10,700	11,320	10,010	10,050	9,900	6,910	10,100	10,820	9,440
Philippines	34,590	40,820	41,290	36,830	38,840	43,680	33,420	48,480	53,410	44,760
Poland	8,300	7,890	7,200	5,840	6,370	6,970	4,650	6,740	7,070	5,650
Portugal	1,590	1,690	1,670	1,810	2,040	1,710	1,080	1,560	1,900	1,390
Qatar	70	80	100	100	90	110	120	140	160	160
Romania	3,270	3,480	3,380	2,990	3,110	3,630	2,320	3,120	3,330	2,830
Russia	6,820	6,550	6,070	5,540	6,230	7,630	5,360	7,300	8,650	8,480
Rwanda	300	300	370	270	340	470	410	500	880	940
Saint Kitts and Nevis	270	360	350	320	280	340	210	250	360	300
Saint Lucia	640	780	790	700	600	760	570	820	840	790
Saint Martin (French)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	20	0
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	410	470	500	510	400	530	360	480	510	450
Samoa	180	210	190	160	170	240	160	200	230	240
Sao Tome and Principe	10	0	10	10	10	10	10	0	10	10
Saudi Arabia	800	800	870	870	990	1,310	1,000	1,380	1,920	1,870
Senegal	810	970	970	880	850	960	740	1,060	1,360	1,210
Serbia	280	520	530	480	600	830	570	940	1,230	1,140
Serbia and Montenegro (former)	1,340	1,300	1,160	830	810	820	500	620	660	510
Seychelles	10	10	20	10	10	10	10	10	10	0
Sierra Leone	1,410	1,690	1,660	1,330	1,180	1,610	1,320	1,320	1,980	1,740
Singapore	260	290	310	280	330	360	260	300	390	310
Sint Maarten	10	20	30	20	20	0	0	20	40	20
Slovakia	320	440	430	380	390	430	280	420	470	510
Slovenia	50	60	60	50	60	70	70	70	100	90
Somalia	4,100	3,690	4,000	3,770	3,980	6,920	5,690	4,600	7,700	7,090
South Africa	2,080	2,540	2,200	1,900	2,270	2,970	2,080	2,440	3,000	2,660
South Sudan	130	130	100	70	110	150	100	120	180	190
Soviet Union (former)	2,330	2,370	2,270	2,120	2,250	2,280	1,590	2,110	2,380	2,270
Spain	1,330	1,410	1,520	1,470	1,670	1,950	1,520	2,340	2,580	2,370
Sri Lanka	1,100	1,250	1,500	1,360	1,480	1,610	1,140	1,580	1,940	1,680
Sudan	1,480	1,740	1,780	1,350	1,610	2,530	1,750	1,800	3,300	2,620
Suriname	130	180	160	140	180	170	90	160	190	170
Sweden	720	890	800	710	800	940	730	1,040	1,120	990
Switzerland	390	410	380	330	440	490	370	460	540	500
Syria	1,830	2,000	2,040	1,790	2,480	3,370	2,460	3,570	9,900	6,520
Taiwan	4,330	4,420	4,040	4,150	4,580	4,820	3,420	5,190	5,560	4,800
Tajikistan	150	160	210	220	260	360	250	380	530	550
Tanzania	530	550	640	550	560	730	530	560	870	940
Thailand	4,810	5,210	5,210	4,670	5,330	6,680	5,570	6,600	6,500	6,440
Togo	1,140	1,170	1,100	910	890	1,060	930	1,120	1,480	1,430
Tonga	470	350	340	260	320	350	300	350	420	290
Trinidad and Tobago	4,150	4,870	4,870	4,510	4,380	4,590	3,030	4,190	4,830	3,680
Tunisia	310	310	350	340	310	390	300	400	510	490
Turkey	2,930	3,150	3,200	3,110	3,280	3,290	2,310	3,500	4,730	4,780
Turkmenistan	110	150	100	110	120	200	120	170	230	230
Turks and Caicos Islands	30	30	30	30	40	30	30	40	50	30
Uganda	720	820	820	740	700	920	730	1,020	1,300	1,260
Ukraine	6,980	8,930	8,370	6,650	7,000	8,020	5,440	7,350	10,180	9,440
United Arab Emirates	440	440	470	480	540	730	550	750	970	970
United Kingdom	8,910	10,100	9,560	9,050	10,540	12,200	8,840	11,410	12,980	10,990
United States	30	80	100	80	120	170	160	250	390	410
Uruguay	810	900	1,040	1,030	1,070	1,090	820	1,020	1,040	870
Uzbekistan	1,730	1,660	1,690	1,500	1,530	1,950	1,480	2,030	3,030	3,290
Venezuela	6,870	8,190	7,630	6,460	8,180	9,320	6,990	10,220	11,500	10,860
Vietnam	18,840	21,980	24,850	19,330	21,100	25,650	22,710	24,220	33,250	33,310
Virgin Islands, British	50	60	50	40	50	60	50	60	50	40
Yemen	1,160	1,280	1,490	1,450	1,550	2,510	2,160	2,350	4,210	4,250
Zambia	320	370	400	400	400	500	340	450	500	440
Zimbabwe	730	850	840	680	710	810	560	780	860	840
All other countries ^[1]	40	40	40	30	40	60	50	60	90	80
Unknown	140	90	20	70	50	130	80	110	220	8,750

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