Table 21. Persons Naturalized by Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Years 2017 to 2019

Region of Birth	2017	2018	2019
Total	707,265	761,901	843,593
Africa	61,851	64,934	84,990
Asia	255,306	275,621	327,273
Europe	65,141	71,436	81,040
North America	258,371	277,592	276,910
Oceania	3,327	3,792	4,308
South America	63,063	67,892	68,678
Unknown	206	634	394

Country of Birth	2017	2018	2019
Total	707,265	761,901	843,593
Afghanistan	1,414	1,569	2,794
Albania	2,169	2,203	2,778
Algeria	949	918	1,235
American Samoa	216	182	279
Angola	125	147	136
Anguilla	20	34	25
Antigua and Barbuda	311	356	386
Argentina	3,486	3,977	3,956
Armenia	1,994	2,085	2,327
Aruba	32	33	54
Australia	1,235	1,545	1,838
Austria	177	238	214
Azerbaijan	483	512	597
Bahamas	481	590	640
Bahrain	77	86	116
Bangladesh	8,629	7,797	9,067
Barbados	645	555	625
Belarus	1,313	1,393	1,730
Belgium	493	520	575
Belize	810	859	950
Benin	309	249	343
Bermuda	65	70	64
Bhutan	5,557	6,180	6,920
Bolivia	1,806	1,575	1,679
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1,780	1,805	1,709
Botswana	27	38	41
Brazil	9,701	10,538	10,451
Brunei	11	15	26
Bulgaria	1,887	1,825	2,251
Burkina Faso	303	347	426
Burma	6,825	7,858	11,674
Burundi	266	284	394
Cabo Verde	1,355	1,429	1,316
Cambodia	2,184	2,467	2,877
Cameroon	2,416	2,319	3,197
Canada	7,829	9,379	11,059
Cayman Islands	23	23	35
Central African Republic	61	73	120
Chad	78	72	90
Chile	1,620	1,752	1,784
China, People's Republic	37,674	39,600	39,490
Colombia	16,184	17,564	17,126
Congo, Democratic Republic	1,437	1,776	2,877
Congo, Republic	322	316	351
Costa Rica	1,720	1,860	1,859
Cote d'Ivoire	907	908	1,206
Croatia	351	371	412
Cuba	25,961	32,089	36,246
Curacao	16	20	30
Cyprus	84	125	115
Czechia	595	644	600
Czechoslovakia (former)	251	260	325
Denmark	769	650	656
Djibouti	48	65	96
Dominica	539	612	740
Dominican Republic	29,734	22,970	23,101
Ecuador	7,748	7,996	7,731
Egypt	5,154	6,549	8,311
El Salvador	16,941	17,300	18,260
Equatorial Guinea	8	9	15
Eritrea	1,424	1,457	1,951
Estonia	157	190	210
Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)	16	13	25
Ethiopia	7,370	6,769	9,065
Fiji	841	875	778
Finland	279	283	343
France	2,812	2,854	3,315
French Polynesia	14	13	18
Gabon	67	81	113
Gambia	586	650	729
Georgia	889	751	973
Germany	3,879	4,284	4,745
Ghana	5,777	6,047	6,936
Greece	945	1,074	1,137
Grenada	629	463	640
Guatemala	9,131	9,566	8,948
Guinea	957	924	1,069
Guinea-Bissau	25	28	23
Guyana	4,527	4,625	5,089
Haiti	12,794	14,389	14,308
Honduras	5,310	5,645	6,353
Hong Kong	1,623	1,768	1,924
Hungary	729	922	983
Iceland	83	69	101
India	50,802	52,194	64,631
Indonesia	1,566	1,807	2,093
Iran	8,324	8,409	11,310
Iraq	7,875	12,448	18,366
Ireland	1,405	1,621	1,698
Israel	2,466	2,743	3,265
Italy	2,501	2,920	3,244
Jamaica	15,087	17,213	18,010
Japan	1,713	1,869	1,969
Jordan	2,239	2,630	3,430
Kazakhstan	729	823	1,147
Kenya	4,348	4,302	5,329
Korea, North	15	30	25
Korea, South ¹	14,643	16,031	16,298
Kosovo	410	451	597
Kuwait	677	789	1,111
Kyrgyzstan	412	483	534
Laos	1,726	2,027	2,303
Latvia	306	315	365
Lebanon	2,081	2,339	2,683
Lesotho	8	9	18
Liberia	2,421	2,752	3,334
Libya	207	308	447
Lithuania	584	699	885
Luxembourg	14	20	23
Macau	70	79	92
Madagascar	61	53	63
Malawi	84	114	120
Malaysia	1,170	1,388	1,406
Mali	391	398	446
Malta	47	51	49
Marshall Islands	16	21	15
Mauritania	288	252	319
Mauritius	65	70	67
Mexico	118,559	131,977	122,286
Micronesia, Federated States	53	34	39
Moldova	1,442	1,680	2,010
Mongolia	416	468	541
Montenegro	187	205	254
Montserrat	45	52	50
Morocco	2,943	2,644	3,142
Mozambique	38	43	63
Namibia	27	29	61
Nepal	4,509	5,352	7,409
Netherlands	699	851	953
Netherlands Antilles (former)	42	48	56
New Zealand	468	577	668
Nicaragua	4,181	4,277	4,346
Niger	126	110	143
Nigeria	7,652	8,459	11,360
North Macedonia (formerly Macedonia)	582	669	800
Norway	60	93	111
Oman	30	44	68
Pakistan	10,166	10,414	13,079
Palau	32	28	32
Panama	1,266	1,308	1,361
Papua New Guinea	13	17	19
Paraguay	343	401	387
Peru	10,014	10,043	9,899
Philippines	36,828	38,816	43,668
Poland	5,840	6,370	6,973
Portugal	1,807	2,031	1,712
Qatar	95	92	105
Romania	2,986	3,104	3,627
Russia	5,534	6,225	7,628
Rwanda	267	343	466
Saint Kitts and Nevis	317	281	335
Saint Lucia	697	604	758
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	507	401	528
Samoa	164	168	239
Saudi Arabia	872	990	1,313
Senegal	882	848	956
Serbia	476	596	829
Serbia and Montenegro (former)	820	805	820
Seychelles	5	11	D
Sierra Leone	1,328	1,177	1,604
Singapore	279	332	359
Sint Maarten	21	22	D
Slovakia	384	394	432
Slovenia	52	57	68
Somalia	3,774	3,979	6,915
South Africa	1,901	2,262	2,967
South Sudan	74	109	146
Soviet Union (former)	2,123	2,252	2,280
Spain	1,469	1,674	1,945
Sri Lanka	1,364	1,480	1,609
Sudan	1,348	1,611	2,527
Suriname	143	176	170
Sweden	708	797	936
Switzerland	333	436	488
Syria	1,789	2,475	3,364
Taiwan	4,151	4,576	4,821
Tajikistan	222	261	364
Tanzania	547	561	731
Thailand	4,672	5,324	6,678
Togo	907	893	1,054
Tonga	262	319	354
Trinidad and Tobago	4,504	4,378	4,592
Tunisia	344	306	393
Turkey	3,108	3,275	3,289
Turkmenistan	109	117	203
Turks and Caicos Islands	26	40	28
Uganda	742	703	922
Ukraine	6,644	6,990	8,019
United Arab Emirates	475	542	730
United Kingdom	9,049	10,530	12,195
United States	84	122	174
Uruguay	1,028	1,073	1,088
Uzbekistan	1,498	1,532	1,950
Venezuela	6,463	8,172	9,317
Vietnam	19,323	21,082	25,646
Virgin Islands, British	42	54	59
Yemen	1,445	1,544	2,509
Zambia	401	402	501
Zimbabwe	675	709	810
All other countries²	38	42	63
Unknown	206	634	394

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