Foreign Population - Naturlisations

Naturalised persons, by selected countries of former citizenship
Specification	2004	2005	2006	2007
¹ Starting from August 2006, the Central register of foreigners also includes persons with the separate citizenships of ‘Serbia’ and ‘Montenegro’, the citizenship of the predecessor state ‘Serbia and Montenegro’ is still in use. ² Territory of former Yugoslavia: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia including persons with the citizenship of former Yugoslavia. Source: Naturalisations statistics.
Countries, total	127,153	117,241	124,566	113,030
Of which
Male	64,560	59,923	63,049	56,011
Female	62,593	57,318	61,517	57,019
Former citizenship
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2,103	1,907	1,862	1,797
Croatia	1,689	1,287	1,729	1,224
former Serbia and Montenegro¹	3,539	8,824	9,552	1,246
Serbia¹	-	-	2,979	9,066
Montenegro¹	-	-	70	146
Poland	7,499	6,896	6,907	5,479
Romania	1,309	1,789	1,379	3,502
Russian Federation	4,381	5,055	4,679	4,069
Turkey	44,465	32,661	33,388	28,861
Ukraine	3,844	3,363	4,536	4,454
Morocco	3,820	3,684	3,546	3,489
Tunisia	1,089	976	917	924
Afghanistan	4,077	3,133	3,063	2,831
Sri Lanka	1,968	1,944	1,765	1,678
Viet Nam	1,371	1,278	1,382	1,078
Iraq	3,564	4,136	3,693	4,102
Iran	6,362	4,482	3,662	3,121
Israel	3,164	2,871	4,313	2,405
Kazakhstan	1,443	2,975	3,207	2,180
Lebanon	2,265	1,969	2,030	1,754
Pakistan	1,392	1,321	1,116	1,124
Philippines	809	652	745	665
China	1,133	952	1,036	1,092
Total of the above countries	101,286	92,155	97,556	86,287
Other	25,867	25,086	27,010	26,743
Memo item
Total of former Yugoslavia²	8,664	13,187	17,366	14,583