Such data are provided by the European statistical service Eurostat in the online tool Acquisition of citizenship.
Over the years, the layout is as follows:.
2014 - 17743 Ukrainian citizens received EU citizenship 2015 - 18302 Ukrainian citizens received EU citizenship 2016 - there is a sharp jump in those who prefer EU citizenship - 23180 people.
2017 - 15768 Ukrainian citizens received EU citizenship 2018 - 15365 Ukrainian citizens received EU citizenship No data for 2019. Total: 90 thousand. 358 people left Ukraine. This is comparable to the departure from Ukraine of all residents of cities such as Brovary (Kiev region. ), Konotop (Sumy region. ), Uman (Cherkasy region. ), Mukachevo (Transcarpathian region.
It is noteworthy that Eurostat has denied the information that most Ukrainians leave among the EU countries to Poland. Germany is the leader in granting citizenship to Ukrainians - this country gives its citizenship about 20% of all Ukrainians who decide to live and work outside Ukraine. Poland only takes second place. It is followed by Italy and Portugal.
Approximately the same situation with the Russians. Eurostat shows that EU countries give them their citizenship as willingly as Ukrainians.
Germany leads the EU in the number of registered citizenship to Russians. So, in 2018, 31% of all Russians received for the year of citizenship of the EU countries fell on Germany (almost 5 thousand people per year).
But in the case of Russians, the three leaders are changing: another 13% of citizenships are issued by France, Finland is in third place (11%).
It is noteworthy that in 2014 Russia was ahead of Ukraine in the number of requests of its citizens for citizenship of the EU countries, but since 2015 Ukraine (excluding 2017) is ahead of Russia in the number of people who want to leave the country forever. In 2016, Ukraine took 5th place among all countries of the world whose citizens submitted the most inquiries and received citizenship of the EU countries.
Among the EU countries, most of its citizenship for residents of all countries of the world is issued by Spain (116.7 thousand in 2018), Italy is second (112.5 thousand), France closes the top three (110 thousand).
Recall EU countries willingly provide their citizenship to youth. Especially for students and those who have recently graduated from universities. Thus, the EU is solving the problem of attracting young and promising personnel for the economy of the Union countries..
It remains to be recalled that Eurostat, as a European agency, does not take into account the number of Ukrainians who over the same period chose to choose the citizenship of Australia, USA, Canada, Israel.