Table 21. Persons Naturalized by Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Years 2014 to 2016

Region of Birth	2014	2015	2016
Total	653,416	730,259	753,060
Africa	62,175	71,492	72,338
Asia	233,163	261,374	271,733
Europe	71,325	78,074	74,344
North America	222,547	247,492	259,845
Oceania	3,399	3,811	3,953
South America	60,665	67,927	70,821
Unknown	142	89	26

Country of Birth	2014	2015	2016
Total	653,416	730,259	753,060
Afghanistan	1,853	1,589	1,444
Albania	3,131	3,237	2,813
Algeria	928	943	1,035
American Samoa	187	296	285
Angola	145	132	131
Anguilla	18	31	16
Antigua and Barbuda	358	381	383
Argentina	3,683	3,886	4,015
Armenia	2,488	2,874	2,516
Aruba	28	37	28
Australia	1,159	1,379	1,389
Austria	223	207	221
Azerbaijan	585	568	574
Bahamas	545	570	590
Bahrain	90	79	80
Bangladesh	7,475	9,750	9,949
Barbados	550	646	651
Belarus	1,437	1,710	1,518
Belgium	408	505	514
Belize	773	851	870
Benin	229	310	317
Bermuda	67	66	61
Bhutan	2,639	4,562	5,563
Bolivia	1,527	1,689	1,862
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2,509	3,304	2,257
Botswana	24	28	29
Brazil	8,625	10,516	10,268
Brunei	15	13	10
Bulgaria	2,226	2,336	2,086
Burkina Faso	235	307	322
Burma	4,225	6,045	6,956
Burundi	415	437	406
Cabo Verde	979	1,054	1,207
Cambodia	2,866	2,878	2,756
Cameroon	2,120	3,170	3,088
Canada	8,385	9,492	9,346
Cayman Islands	13	30	20
Central African Republic	44	52	80
Chad	74	84	105
Chile	1,435	1,486	1,666
China, People's Republic	30,284	31,241	35,794
Colombia	16,478	17,207	18,601
Congo, Democratic Republic	1,246	1,490	1,707
Congo, Republic	438	473	395
Costa Rica	1,461	1,633	1,862
Cote d'Ivoire	910	1,078	1,127
Croatia	428	563	438
Cuba	24,092	25,770	32,101
Curacao	11	17	13
Cyprus	112	107	105
Czechia	565	733	692
Czechoslovakia (former)	303	371	344
Denmark	129	243	1,193
Djibouti	26	26	52
Dominica	520	653	610
Dominican Republic	23,775	26,665	31,320
Ecuador	6,952	7,664	8,568
Egypt	5,094	5,693	5,696
El Salvador	15,598	16,930	17,213
Equatorial Guinea	12	14	18
Eritrea	1,045	1,494	1,797
Estonia	183	208	183
Ethiopia	7,002	8,312	8,725
Fiji	770	850	996
Finland	274	301	303
France	2,589	2,784	2,841
French Polynesia	20	14	18
Gabon	63	89	83
Gambia	510	685	724
Georgia	898	1,027	988
Germany	4,375	4,380	4,329
Ghana	5,108	6,033	6,411
Greece	780	867	1,013
Grenada	544	664	658
Guatemala	8,549	9,344	9,764
Guinea	908	999	1,077
Guinea-Bissau	27	29	20
Guyana	4,327	5,162	5,284
Haiti	13,676	14,053	15,276
Honduras	4,433	5,039	5,819
Hong Kong	1,801	1,716	1,662
Hungary	891	941	934
Iceland	70	88	88
India	37,854	42,213	46,188
Indonesia	1,568	1,743	1,641
Iran	9,620	10,344	9,507
Iraq	12,377	14,899	12,130
Ireland	1,413	1,375	1,383
Israel	3,015	3,182	3,071
Italy	2,313	2,760	2,692
Jamaica	13,547	16,566	16,772
Japan	1,635	1,858	1,758
Jordan	2,427	2,461	2,552
Kazakhstan	789	819	760
Kenya	3,885	4,738	4,834
Korea, North	24	23	16
Korea, South ¹	13,587	14,230	14,347
Kosovo	392	547	530
Kuwait	791	819	790
Kyrgyzstan	305	418	408
Laos	2,564	2,042	1,999
Latvia	366	392	356
Lebanon	2,528	2,463	2,284
Lesotho	8	11	9
Liberia	3,035	3,042	3,022
Libya	228	193	210
Lithuania	744	752	626
Luxembourg	34	20	18
Macau	102	109	101
Macedonia	625	611	704
Madagascar	50	65	75
Malawi	76	91	95
Malaysia	1,052	1,113	1,189
Mali	352	405	456
Malta	40	50	43
Marshall Islands	20	22	27
Mauritania	376	355	323
Mauritius	69	60	63
Mexico	94,889	105,958	103,550
Micronesia, Federated States	62	85	67
Moldova	1,279	1,681	1,689
Mongolia	335	324	437
Montenegro	202	209	222
Montserrat	47	43	45
Morocco	3,538	3,805	3,684
Mozambique	34	43	51
Namibia	31	42	33
Nepal	2,888	4,225	5,004
Netherlands	665	778	829
Netherlands Antilles (former)	43	35	45
New Zealand	453	514	565
Nicaragua	3,775	3,951	4,663
Niger	161	180	140
Nigeria	8,667	10,363	9,520
Norway	92	80	93
Oman	41	47	58
Pakistan	11,210	11,912	11,729
Palau	50	44	43
Panama	1,277	1,412	1,458
Papua New Guinea	7	21	19
Paraguay	256	338	396
Peru	9,572	10,701	11,319
Philippines	34,591	40,815	41,285
Poland	8,304	7,886	7,198
Portugal	1,587	1,690	1,665
Qatar	69	75	98
Romania	3,267	3,478	3,379
Russia	6,824	6,552	6,067
Rwanda	302	300	369
Saint Kitts and Nevis	270	360	345
Saint Lucia	635	775	791
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	405	467	500
Samoa	181	213	192
Saudi Arabia	795	796	869
Senegal	806	974	969
Serbia	276	522	532
Serbia and Montenegro (former)	1,338	1,297	1,164
Seychelles	9	7	17
Sierra Leone	1,406	1,692	1,662
Singapore	258	285	308
Sint Maarten	7	17	33
Slovakia	317	443	428
Slovenia	52	61	63
Somalia	4,097	3,691	3,998
South Africa	2,083	2,538	2,197
South Sudan	132	131	101
Soviet Union (former)	2,334	2,372	2,268
Spain	1,326	1,414	1,515
Sri Lanka	1,104	1,246	1,497
Sudan	1,482	1,740	1,776
Suriname	127	183	164
Swaziland	7	12	8
Sweden	724	885	795
Switzerland	388	411	375
Syria	1,832	2,004	2,043
Taiwan	4,326	4,420	4,043
Tajikistan	146	156	212
Tanzania	525	553	639
Thailand	4,805	5,213	5,211
Togo	1,141	1,171	1,099
Tonga	473	352	337
Trinidad and Tobago	4,147	4,869	4,867
Tunisia	310	314	352
Turkey	2,925	3,150	3,201
Turkmenistan	110	153	102
Turks and Caicos Islands	26	33	31
Uganda	724	817	823
Ukraine	6,984	8,926	8,374
United Arab Emirates	435	443	473
United Kingdom	8,906	10,095	9,562
United States	31	75	95
Uruguay	812	902	1,044
Uzbekistan	1,725	1,660	1,685
Venezuela	6,871	8,192	7,633
Vietnam	18,837	21,976	24,848
Virgin Islands, British	49	59	46
Yemen	1,160	1,284	1,490
Zambia	318	370	404
Zimbabwe	734	852	843
All other countries ²	41	41	42
Unknown	142	89	26

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