During 2023, a total of 11,622 foreigners residing in the Canary Islands acquired Spanish nationality, more than half of whom had Cuban and Venezuelan nationality, according to data recently published by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
Of the total number of people naturalized in the archipelago during the past year, 2,967 people had Cuban nationality and 2,952 Venezuelan.
With 1,466 naturalizations, third place is for citizens of Moroccan origin, while fourth place is for those from Colombia, who totaled 1,092 naturalizations.
Next are citizens of Argentine origin (256); Dominican (202); Mauritanian (175); Honduran (169), Bolivian (150); and those from Peru (149).
The majority of foreign people who acquired nationality in the archipelago are women (53.6%).
Nationwide, a total of 240,208 foreign people became Spanish citizens, which represented an increase of 32.3% compared to the previous year.
By age, people aged 30 to 39 years constituted the largest group, followed by the group aged 40 to 49 years.