More than 225,000 Indians gave up their citizenship in 2022 – the most in over a decade – according to India’s Ministry of External Affairs. This is a spike from the average of around 150,000 a year since 2011.
The top countries that granted the Indians citizenship between 2019 and 2021 were the United States, Canada and Australia, statistics from India’s Ministry of Home Affairs showed in 2022.
Singapore was the seventh-most popular destination, with around 7,000 Indians getting the red passport over that period.
According to a 2020 report by the United Nation’s Population Division, India had 18 million people living outside their homeland, with the United Arab Emirates, the US and Saudi Arabia hosting the majority.
