With 1,699 naturalisations and 17.5% of the population, over half of the naturalised citizens living in Austria were Syrian.
6,105 descendants of politically persecuted persons obtained Austrian citizenship between January and September. Approximately 99.8% of them—6,094 of whom became citizens—live overseas.
But according to Statistics Austria statistics, the number of people who became naturalised while living in Austria also increased by 15.1%, or 9,691.
In any case, Israel accounted for 3,608 or 22.8 percent of the new citizens in this category, followed by the US (1,303 or 8.2 percent) and the UK (548 or 3.5 percent). A third of these new citizens (33.5%) were minors, and nearly half (48.9%) were women.
In 2024, 15,824 persons obtained Austrian citizenship in the first three quarters. Of the 3,227 individuals who were naturalised during this time, one-fifth (20.4%) were born in Austria, while over 6,133, or 38.8%, reside outside.
With 1,699 naturalisations and 17.5% of the population, over half of the naturalised citizens living in Austria were Syrian. Afghanistan comes in third place with 753 naturalisations, or 7.8% of the total, followed by Turkey with 1,013 naturalised citizens, or 10.5% of the total.
Around 608 new Austrian citizens (6.3 per cent) came from Bosnia and Herzegovina, while 5.2 per cent (500) came from Iran.
Statistics Austria reveals that naturalisations during this period were up by 43.4 per cent compared to 2023, increasing from 11,033 to 15,824.
With 1,869 new residents obtaining Austrian citizenship in 2024, the upper Austria area is most impacted by rises in naturalisations. That was the largest difference seen throughout this time, up 50.2% from 2023.
Vienna (-2.9 per cent) and Burgenland (-2.7 per cent) recorded declines, whereas Styria and Salzburg had gains of 40.4% (1,271 more naturalised citizens) and 34.3% (485), respectively.
In any case, throughout the first three quarters of this year, 2,777 and 143 naturalisations were documented in these two regions.
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