Finnish citizenship was granted in 2022 to 10,198 foreign citizens permanently resident in Finland, according to Statistics Finland.
The number of citizenship granted in 2022 is 3,555 or 54 percent higher compared to the number of previous year.
One in five of persons having been granted Finnish citizenship was a Russian citizen.
Nearly 160,000 persons living in Finland have dual nationality.
Finnish citizenship was granted to 6,643 foreign citizens permanently resident in Finland in 2021 and the number was 1,173 or 15 percent lower compared to the previous year.
A total of 8,744 people were granted Finnish citizenship in 2020.
- Finnish
- Citizenship
- 2022
- Rises
Source: www.dailyfinland.fi
