Nearly 100,000 Moroccans obtained the nationality of a European Union country in 2024

This underlying trend, quantified by Eurostat, reflects a global acceleration of administrative regularizations. With an 11.6% increase year-on-year, the granting of European passports has soared by 54.5% over the past decade. In this vast integration policy, Germany, Spain and Italy stand out as the main institutional drivers.

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From a demographic perspective, the balances are freezing at the top of the rankings. With 97,100 new European citizens, the Moroccan diaspora firmly maintains the status it already had in 2023. It is logically outpaced by the 110,100 Syrian beneficiaries, while maintaining a comfortable lead over the Albanian community and its 48,000 validated files.

However, there was a recent time when the Kingdom dominated these continental statistics without sharing. During the years 2021 and 2022, Moroccan citizens represented the very first group of newly naturalized individuals, temporarily relegating Syrian nationals to second place in this ranking.

Today, this anchoring is also observed from the first stage of the legal migration path. In 2024, 188,400 first residence permits were issued to Moroccan nationals. This volume places them in third place among third-country citizens recently documented, in a landscape dominated by Ukraine and India.

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Finally, the map of European attractiveness reveals new geographical nuances. While the major nations of the South and Germany handle the largest gross volumes, Sweden now stands out for its proportional policy, displaying the highest naturalization rate in the entire Union to the detriment of Romania.