Table 21. Persons Naturalized by Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Years 2013 to 2015

Region of Birth	2013	2014	2015
Total	779,929	653,416	730,259
Africa	71,872	62,175	71,492
Asia	275,700	233,163	261,374
Europe	80,333	71,325	78,074
North America	271,807	222,547	247,492
Oceania	3,849	3,399	3,811
South America	76,167	60,665	67,927
Unknown	201	142	89

Country of Birth	2013	2014	2015
Total	779,929	653,416	730,259
Afghanistan	2,074	1,853	1,589
Albania	3,538	3,131	3,237
Algeria	841	928	943
American Samoa	265	187	296
Angola	143	145	132
Anguilla	26	18	31
Antigua-Barbuda	366	358	381
Argentina	4,177	3,683	3,886
Armenia	3,203	2,488	2,874
Aruba	42	28	37
Australia	1,296	1,159	1,379
Austria	248	223	207
Azerbaijan	786	585	568
Bahamas	681	545	570
Bahrain	76	90	79
Bangladesh	9,571	7,475	9,750
Barbados	683	550	646
Belarus	1,797	1,437	1,710
Belgium	513	408	505
Belize	966	773	851
Benin	206	229	310
Bermuda	59	67	66
Bhutan	275	2,639	4,562
Bolivia	1,961	1,527	1,689
Bosnia-Herzegovina	3,662	2,509	3,304
Botswana	29	24	28
Brazil	9,565	8,625	10,516
British Virgin Islands	45	49	59
Brunei	11	15	13
Bulgaria	2,646	2,226	2,336
Burkina Faso	230	235	307
Burma	3,489	4,225	6,045
Burundi	379	415	437
Cambodia	4,161	2,866	2,878
Cameroon	2,541	2,120	3,170
Canada	8,690	8,385	9,492
Cape Verde	1,014	979	1,054
Cayman Islands	17	13	30
Central African Republic	54	44	52
Chad	64	74	84
Chile	1,649	1,435	1,486
China, People's Republic	35,387	30,284	31,241
Colombia	22,196	16,478	17,207
Congo, Democratic Republic	1,250	1,246	1,490
Congo, Republic	402	438	473
Costa Rica	1,661	1,461	1,633
Cote d'Ivoire	958	910	1,078
Croatia	561	428	563
Cuba	30,482	24,092	25,770
Curacao	-	11	17
Cyprus	112	112	107
Czech Republic	562	565	733
Czechoslovakia (former)	232	303	371
Denmark	127	129	243
Djibouti	39	26	26
Dominica	642	520	653
Dominican Republic	39,590	23,775	26,665
Ecuador	9,470	6,952	7,664
Egypt	6,213	5,094	5,693
El Salvador	18,401	15,598	16,930
Equatorial Guinea	14	12	14
Eritrea	1,145	1,045	1,494
Estonia	213	183	208
Ethiopia	8,323	7,002	8,312
Fiji	1,003	770	850
Finland	300	274	301
France	2,534	2,589	2,784
French Polynesia	8	20	14
Gabon	72	63	89
Gambia	573	510	685
Georgia	1,205	898	1,027
Germany	4,066	4,375	4,380
Ghana	5,105	5,108	6,033
Greece	938	780	867
Grenada	717	544	664
Guatemala	9,530	8,549	9,344
Guinea	958	908	999
Guinea-Bissau	24	27	29
Guyana	6,295	4,327	5,162
Haiti	23,480	13,676	14,053
Honduras	5,462	4,433	5,039
Hong Kong	2,093	1,801	1,716
Hungary	984	891	941
Iceland	75	70	88
India	49,897	37,854	42,213
Indonesia	2,190	1,568	1,743
Iran	11,623	9,620	10,344
Iraq	7,771	12,377	14,899
Ireland	1,295	1,413	1,375
Israel	3,466	3,015	3,182
Italy	2,355	2,313	2,760
Jamaica	16,442	13,547	16,566
Japan	1,837	1,635	1,858
Jordan	2,816	2,427	2,461
Kazakhstan	909	789	819
Kenya	4,257	3,885	4,738
Korea, North	27	24	23
Korea, South¹	15,786	13,587	14,230
Kosovo	487	392	547
Kuwait	920	791	819
Kyrgyzstan	395	305	418
Laos	3,932	2,564	2,042
Latvia	364	366	392
Lebanon	3,002	2,528	2,463
Lesotho	10	8	11
Liberia	3,923	3,035	3,042
Libya	206	228	193
Lithuania	933	744	752
Luxembourg	16	34	20
Macau	97	102	109
Macedonia	665	625	611
Madagascar	50	50	65
Malawi	83	76	91
Malaysia	1,169	1,052	1,113
Mali	332	352	405
Malta	59	40	50
Marshall Islands	17	20	22
Mauritania	520	376	355
Mauritius	67	69	60
Mexico	99,385	94,889	105,958
Micronesia, Federated States	96	62	85
Moldova	1,594	1,279	1,681
Mongolia	347	335	324
Montenegro	231	202	209
Montserrat	65	47	43
Morocco	3,768	3,538	3,805
Mozambique	51	34	43
Namibia	40	31	42
Nepal	2,711	2,888	4,225
Netherlands	786	665	778
Netherlands Antilles (former)	82	43	35
New Zealand	482	453	514
Nicaragua	5,064	3,775	3,951
Niger	167	161	180
Nigeria	9,545	8,667	10,363
Norway	80	92	80
Oman	39	41	47
Pakistan	12,948	11,210	11,912
Palau	64	50	44
Panama	1,598	1,277	1,412
Papua New Guinea	20	7	21
Paraguay	331	256	338
Peru	11,782	9,572	10,701
Philippines	43,489	34,591	40,815
Poland	8,697	8,304	7,886
Portugal	1,585	1,587	1,690
Qatar	107	69	75
Romania	4,050	3,267	3,478
Russia	8,222	6,824	6,552
Rwanda	374	302	300
Saint Kitts-Nevis	315	270	360
Saint Lucia	856	635	775
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	574	405	467
Samoa	206	181	213
Saudi Arabia	927	795	796
Senegal	869	806	974
Serbia	117	276	522
Serbia and Montenegro(former)	1,830	1,338	1,297
Seychelles	15	9	7
Sierra Leone	1,613	1,406	1,692
Singapore	263	258	285
Sint Maarten	-	7	17
Slovakia	413	317	443
Slovenia	58	52	61
Somalia	6,875	4,097	3,691
South Africa	2,283	2,083	2,538
South Sudan	139	132	131
Soviet Union(former)	2,807	2,334	2,372
Spain	1,367	1,326	1,414
Sri Lanka	1,258	1,104	1,246
Sudan	1,924	1,482	1,740
Suriname	160	127	183
Swaziland	15	7	12
Sweden	783	724	885
Switzerland	452	388	411
Syria	2,196	1,832	2,004
Taiwan	5,255	4,326	4,420
Tajikistan	168	146	156
Tanzania	647	525	553
Thailand	5,544	4,805	5,213
Togo	1,380	1,141	1,171
Tonga	371	473	352
Trinidad and Tobago	5,784	4,147	4,869
Tunisia	362	310	314
Turkey	3,390	2,925	3,150
Turkmenistan	160	110	153
Turks and Caicos Islands	47	26	33
Uganda	763	724	817
Ukraine	8,624	6,984	8,926
United Arab Emirates	499	435	443
United Kingdom	9,459	8,906	10,095
United States	55	31	75
Uruguay	933	812	902
Uzbekistan	2,482	1,725	1,660
Venezuela	7,648	6,871	8,192
Vietnam	24,277	18,837	21,976
Yemen	1,355	1,160	1,284
Zambia	352	318	370
Zimbabwe	658	734	852
All other countries²	41	41	41
Unknown	201	142	89

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