820,00 new naturalized citizens in the EU in 2012; about 760,000 in the US.

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EU created almost 1mn new citizens in 2012

Member states created 820,000 new EU citizens in 2012, up 4% on 2011, the European Commission said Tuesday. The highest per-capita naturalisation rates were in Hungary, Sweden, and Poland. The lowest was in Austria. Moroccans were the biggest beneficiaries (59,300), followed by Turks (53,800), Indians (36,900), and Ecuadorians (28,900).

I would not have guessed that Ecuadorians would be in the top 4 countries that are sources of new European citizens.

In 2012, a total of 757,434 persons naturalized. The leading countries of birth of new citizens were Mexico (102,181), the Philippines (44,958), India (42,928), the Dominican Republic (33,351), and the People’s Republic of China (31,868).

http://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/ois_natz_fr_2012.pdf

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1. The US has higher immigration per capita

the EU has over five hundred million people.

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2. Yes it does, though neither of them compare to the immigration rate in Canada. n/t