At least 309,852 people obtained a German passport in 2025, beating the 291,955 naturalizations the previous year, the weekly Welt am Sonntag has reported.
Germany has seen a rise in the number of people seeking German citizenship since it made it possible in mid-2024 for people to have two different passports and reduced the required time of residence to five from eight years.
What did the report say about German citizenship numbers?
The statistics come from 14 of Germany's 16 federal states, with data still lacking from the eastern states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Saxony-Anhalt, according to Welt am Sonntag.
The western states of Lower Saxony, Saarland and Schleswig-Holstein had also not provided complete data, it said, although almost all cities and districts in these states had done so.
