Table 21. Persons Naturalized by Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Years 2015 to 2017

Region of Birth	2015	2016	2017
Total	730,259	753,060	707,265
Africa	71,492	72,338	61,851
Asia	261,374	271,733	255,306
Europe	78,074	74,344	65,141
North America	247,492	259,845	258,371
Oceania	3,811	3,953	3,327
South America	67,927	70,821	63,063
Unknown	89	26	206

Country of Birth	2015	2016	2017
Total	730,259	753,060	707,265
Afghanistan	1,589	1,444	1,414
Albania	3,237	2,813	2,169
Algeria	943	1,035	949
American Samoa	296	285	216
Angola	132	131	125
Anguilla	31	16	20
Antigua and Barbuda	381	383	311
Argentina	3,886	4,015	3,486
Armenia	2,874	2,516	1,994
Aruba	37	28	32
Australia	1,379	1,389	1,235
Austria	207	221	177
Azerbaijan	568	574	483
Bahamas	570	590	481
Bahrain	79	80	77
Bangladesh	9,750	9,949	8,629
Barbados	646	651	645
Belarus	1,710	1,518	1,313
Belgium	505	514	493
Belize	851	870	810
Benin	310	317	309
Bermuda	66	61	65
Bhutan	4,562	5,563	5,557
Bolivia	1,689	1,862	1,806
Bosnia and Herzegovina	3,304	2,257	1,780
Botswana	28	29	27
Brazil	10,516	10,268	9,701
Brunei	13	10	11
Bulgaria	2,336	2,086	1,887
Burkina Faso	307	322	303
Burma	6,045	6,956	6,825
Burundi	437	406	266
Cabo Verde	1,054	1,207	1,355
Cambodia	2,878	2,756	2,184
Cameroon	3,170	3,088	2,416
Canada	9,492	9,346	7,829
Cayman Islands	30	20	23
Central African Republic	52	80	61
Chad	84	105	78
Chile	1,486	1,666	1,620
China, People's Republic	31,241	35,794	37,674
Colombia	17,207	18,601	16,184
Congo, Democratic Republic	1,490	1,707	1,437
Congo, Republic	473	395	322
Costa Rica	1,633	1,862	1,720
Cote d'Ivoire	1,078	1,127	907
Croatia	563	438	351
Cuba	25,770	32,101	25,961
Curacao	17	13	16
Cyprus	107	105	84
Czechia	733	692	595
Czechoslovakia (former)	371	344	251
Denmark	243	1,193	769
Djibouti	26	52	48
Dominica	653	610	539
Dominican Republic	26,665	31,320	29,734
Ecuador	7,664	8,568	7,748
Egypt	5,693	5,696	5,154
El Salvador	16,930	17,213	16,941
Equatorial Guinea	14	18	8
Eritrea	1,494	1,797	1,424
Estonia	208	183	157
Ethiopia	8,312	8,725	7,370
Fiji	850	996	841
Finland	301	303	279
France	2,784	2,841	2,812
French Polynesia	14	18	14
Gabon	89	83	67
Gambia	685	724	586
Georgia	1,027	988	889
Germany	4,380	4,329	3,879
Ghana	6,033	6,411	5,777
Greece	867	1,013	945
Grenada	664	658	629
Guatemala	9,344	9,764	9,131
Guinea	999	1,077	957
Guinea-Bissau	29	20	25
Guyana	5,162	5,284	4,527
Haiti	14,053	15,276	12,794
Honduras	5,039	5,819	5,310
Hong Kong	1,716	1,662	1,623
Hungary	941	934	729
Iceland	88	88	83
India	42,213	46,188	50,802
Indonesia	1,743	1,641	1,566
Iran	10,344	9,507	8,324
Iraq	14,899	12,130	7,875
Ireland	1,375	1,383	1,405
Israel	3,182	3,071	2,466
Italy	2,760	2,692	2,501
Jamaica	16,566	16,772	15,087
Japan	1,858	1,758	1,713
Jordan	2,461	2,552	2,239
Kazakhstan	819	760	729
Kenya	4,738	4,834	4,348
Korea, North	23	16	15
Korea, South ¹	14,230	14,347	14,643
Kosovo	547	530	410
Kuwait	819	790	677
Kyrgyzstan	418	408	412
Laos	2,042	1,999	1,726
Latvia	392	356	306
Lebanon	2,463	2,284	2,081
Lesotho	11	9	8
Liberia	3,042	3,022	2,421
Libya	193	210	207
Lithuania	752	626	584
Luxembourg	20	18	14
Macau	109	101	70
Macedonia	611	704	582
Madagascar	65	75	61
Malawi	91	95	84
Malaysia	1,113	1,189	1,170
Mali	405	456	391
Malta	50	43	47
Marshall Islands	22	27	16
Mauritania	355	323	288
Mauritius	60	63	65
Mexico	105,958	103,550	118,559
Micronesia, Federated States	85	67	53
Moldova	1,681	1,689	1,442
Mongolia	324	437	416
Montenegro	209	222	187
Montserrat	43	45	45
Morocco	3,805	3,684	2,943
Mozambique	43	51	38
Namibia	42	33	27
Nepal	4,225	5,004	4,509
Netherlands	778	829	699
Netherlands Antilles (former)	35	45	42
New Zealand	514	565	468
Nicaragua	3,951	4,663	4,181
Niger	180	140	126
Nigeria	10,363	9,520	7,652
Norway	80	93	60
Oman	47	58	30
Pakistan	11,912	11,729	10,166
Palau	44	43	32
Panama	1,412	1,458	1,266
Papua New Guinea	21	19	13
Paraguay	338	396	343
Peru	10,701	11,319	10,014
Philippines	40,815	41,285	36,828
Poland	7,886	7,198	5,840
Portugal	1,690	1,665	1,807
Qatar	75	98	95
Romania	3,478	3,379	2,986
Russia	6,552	6,067	5,534
Rwanda	300	369	267
Saint Kitts and Nevis	360	345	317
Saint Lucia	775	791	697
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	467	500	507
Samoa	213	192	164
Saudi Arabia	796	869	872
Senegal	974	969	882
Serbia	522	532	476
Serbia and Montenegro (former)	1,297	1,164	820
Seychelles	7	17	5
Sierra Leone	1,692	1,662	1,328
Singapore	285	308	279
Sint Maarten	17	33	21
Slovakia	443	428	384
Slovenia	61	63	52
Somalia	3,691	3,998	3,774
South Africa	2,538	2,197	1,901
South Sudan	131	101	74
Soviet Union (former)	2,372	2,268	2,123
Spain	1,414	1,515	1,469
Sri Lanka	1,246	1,497	1,364
Sudan	1,740	1,776	1,348
Suriname	183	164	143
Swaziland	12	8	16
Sweden	885	795	708
Switzerland	411	375	333
Syria	2,004	2,043	1,789
Taiwan	4,420	4,043	4,151
Tajikistan	156	212	222
Tanzania	553	639	547
Thailand	5,213	5,211	4,672
Togo	1,171	1,099	907
Tonga	352	337	262
Trinidad and Tobago	4,869	4,867	4,504
Tunisia	314	352	344
Turkey	3,150	3,201	3,108
Turkmenistan	153	102	109
Turks and Caicos Islands	33	31	26
Uganda	817	823	742
Ukraine	8,926	8,374	6,644
United Arab Emirates	443	473	475
United Kingdom	10,095	9,562	9,049
United States	75	95	84
Uruguay	902	1,044	1,028
Uzbekistan	1,660	1,685	1,498
Venezuela	8,192	7,633	6,463
Vietnam	21,976	24,848	19,323
Virgin Islands, British	59	46	42
Yemen	1,284	1,490	1,445
Zambia	370	404	401
Zimbabwe	852	843	675
All other countries ²	41	42	38
Unknown	89	26	206

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