Citizenship
Children born in France to foreign parents are automatically granted French citizenship upon reaching the age of 18. People born abroad and living in France can acquire French citizenship if they satisfy certain conditions. In 2009 the number of naturalised persons was 135,000, mainly from Maghreb (41.2%).
| Naturalisations by origin | 2000 | 2005 | 2009 | % Total 2009 |
| Africa | 84 182 | 98 453 | 85 144 | 62.7 |
| Maghreb | 68 185 | 75 224 | 56 024 | 41.2 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 10 622 | 15 624 | 22 214 | 16.4 |
| Other Africa | 5 375 | 7 605 | 6 906 | 5.1 |
| Asia | 27 941 | 26 286 | 19 494 | 14.4 |
| South-East Asia | 7 265 | 4 069 | 2 475 | 1.8 |
| East Asia | 1 139 | 1 280 | 1 622 | 1.2 |
| South Asia | 4 246 | 4 436 | 3 660 | 2.7 |
| Other Asia | 15 291 | 16 501 | 11 737 | 8.6 |
| Europe (not including CIS ) | 22 085 | 18 072 | 14 753 | 10.9 |
| CIS | 1 181 | 2 108 | 4 704 | 3.5 |
| CIS (Europe) | 1 000 | 1 535 | 4 454 | 3.3 |
| CIS (Asia) | 181 | 573 | 250 | 0.2 |
| America | 5 668 | 6 352 | 6 677 | 4.9 |
| North America | 1 048 | 854 | 747 | 0.5 |
| South and Central America | 4 620 | 5 498 | 5 930 | 4.4 |
| Oceania | 87 | 127 | 108 | 0.1 |
| Others | 8 882 | 3 245 | 4 962 | 3.7 |
| Total | 150 026 | 154 643 | 135 842 | 100 |
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Famous quotes containing the word citizenship:
“I would wish that the women of our country could embrace ... [the responsibilities] of citizenship as peculiarly their own. If they could apply their higher sense of service and responsibility, their freshness of enthusiasm, their capacity for organization to this problem, it would become, as it should become, an issue of profound patriotism. The whole plane of political life would be lifted.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)
“Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.”
—O. Henry [William Sydney Porter] (1862–1910)