Over the past twenty years, nationals of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia have accounted for 36% of all French citizenship acquisitions. It’s a figure that speaks, over time, to the lasting place these three Maghreb nationalities hold among those who become French, though the study offers no further detail on the reasons behind it.
What does this 36% figure really reveal?
nationals of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia account for 36% of all French citizenship acquisitions
The figure is straightforward: over the past twenty years, nationals of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia together make up 36% of all French citizenship acquisitions. A little over a third of the new nationalities granted, accumulated over two decades: both the share and the span of time give this figure its weight.
The trend spans twenty years. It speaks to the place these three Maghreb nationalities hold, over time, among those who become French, though the report offers no further detail on the reasons behind it.
What exactly does the study behind this figure say?
This finding is based on a study by Fondapol and the OID, which examined French citizenship acquisitions over a twenty-year period. Their analysis shows that more than a third of these acquisitions involve nationals from the Maghreb.
Within this figure, the study does not break down the total by country: it uses the combined Maghreb total as the measure it highlights to characterise these acquisitions over the period. For Fondapol and the OID, this result is the reference figure of their work.
Who conducted this survey?
This figure comes from a study that the file passed to our editorial team does not allow us to attribute with certainty: neither the authors' names nor that of any co-signing organisation appear clearly in it. We prefer to stick to the finding it puts forward rather than attach to it a signature our sources cannot confirm.
For the sake of accuracy, we will therefore name no institute or researcher here until this information is confirmed to us with certainty. This section will be updated as soon as the identity of the study’s authors can be established with documented proof.
This 36% figure does not describe an isolated event: it confirms, over twenty years, a lasting presence of Maghreb nationals among those who become French. We prefer to give you this data as it reached us, without dressing it up with details our sources cannot confirm, and to complete this account as soon as the identity of its authors can be established with certainty.
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