A total of 5,479 people became Austrian citizens in the first quarter of 2025, showing that more people are interested in obtaining citizenship this year than in the previous year.
According to Statistics Austria, naturalisations were up by 1.9 per cent in 2025 compared to 2024, when there were 5,377 naturalised persons, including 2,057 persons residing abroad, Schengen.News reports.
This year, 2,188 people residing abroad obtained Austrian citizenship, representing 40 per cent of all the people who obtained citizenship in the first three months of 2025.
The slight increase is mainly due to the increase in naturalisations of people persecuted by the Nazi regime and their descendants, most of whom do not live in Austria.
The Director also revealed that compared to the three months of the previous year, the number of new Austrian citizens residing in the county has decreased by 1.1 per cent, totalling 3,291.
Only 3 of Politically Persecuted Persons of the Nazi Regime That Obtained Austrian Citizenship in 2025 Live in Austria
As the Statistics reveal, the number of people who were politically persecuted or their descendants obtaining Austrian citizenship in the first quarter of 2025 has reached 2,176. Out of these, only three reside in Austria. Since September 2020, people in this category have been permitted to obtain Austrian citizenship in addition to any other citizenship they already hold.
Compared to the first quarter of 2024, when 2,037 persons were naturalised, in 2025, naturalisations of this category were up by 6.8 per cent.
Israel was the country of origin for 24.2 per cent of all new Austrian citizens who do not live in Austria, representing a total of 1,325 people in total. The United States follows with 472 or 8.6 per cent of the total, while the United Kingdom was the country of origin for 3.5 per cent or 191 new Austrian citizens.
Other people obtaining Austrian citizenship – a total of 3,303 of them, mainly were former Syrian citizens (529 or 9.7 per cent of the total), Turks (354 or 6.5 per cent), or Afghans (263 or 4.8 per cent).
17.2% of New Austrian Citizens Live in Vienna
A total of 945 people who obtained Austrian citizenship in 2025 live in the Austrian capital of Vienna. That is up by four per cent compared to the same period in 2024.
However, the Vorarlberg region had the highest increase in naturalisation, 227 or 40 per cent more than in the previous year.
Burgenland had an increase of 31.7 per cent or 83 naturalisations, similar to the Lower Austria (+10.2 per cent to 615), while in Carinthia (−22.6 per cent to 106), Upper Austria (−14.2 per cent to 638), Styria (−11.4 per cent to 296), Salzburg (−10.8 per cent to 149) and Tyrol (−5.3 per cent to 232), decreases in naturalisations were evident.