According to the ministerial report of 2011 on the ‘statelessness case’, stateless children born in Denmark made up a substantial part of the applicants who had been listed in Naturalization Bills in 2009 due to their fulfilment of all the requirements in the Naturalization Circular. Stateless children born in Denmark made up between 9 and 16 per cent of all applicants listed in the two Naturalization Bills in 2009 (121 and 254 children respectively). Likewise, in the first half of 2010, before the re-establishment of a naturalization practice in accordance with the Conventions, stateless children born in Denmark made up 10 per cent of all listed applicants (89 stateless children out of 913 applicants).314 Figure 21 illustrates the number and legal grounds on which stateless persons have been listed in Naturalization Bills from October 2010 to the end 2016.315 Figure 21: Stateless persons listed in Naturalization Bills (2010-2016) Oct 2010 Apr 2011 Nov 2011 Apr 2012 Oct 2012 Apr. 2013 Oct. 2013 Apr. 2014 Oct. 2014 2015 2016 Total Convention on the Rights of the Child 121 48 79 37 19 20 11 27 12 41 77 492 (38%) Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness 35 11 36 13 7 1 2 1 0 1 0 107 (8%) Standard requirements 21 20 22 22 21 17 27 29 73 346 103 701 (54%) Total per bill 177 79 137 72 47 38 40 57 85 388 180 1,300 Source: Information from the Ministry of Immigration and Integration to the DIHR in letters of 29 April 2016 and 14 June 2017, and Naturalization Bills submitted to the Danish Parliament October 2010 – October 2014 (L38316, L192317, L11318, L163319, L42320, L211321, L53322, L179323and L45324). The figure indicates that up to 2014, around half (51 per cent) of stateless persons who had been included in Danish Naturalization Bills since October 2010 were included on the basis of the CRC (358 persons). A relatively smaller part of stateless persons (14 per cent) were included based on the 1961 Convention (106 persons), while around a third (34 per cent) has obtained Danish nationality by fulfilling the general requirements applicable to stateless immigrants applying for naturalization in Denmark (252 persons). In the period from October 2010 to October 2014, 732 stateless persons in total had been listed in Naturalization Bills. Among them, 480 persons had been listed on the basis one of the two aforementioned Conventions. However, in 2015, this picture changed with a significant increase of stateless applicants acquiring Danish nationality, predominantly by fulfilling the standard requirements of naturalization. The fact that many more foreigners 314 See the report, Ministry of Integration, ‘Redegørelse til statsministeren om Integrationsministeriets behandling af ansøgninger om indfødsret fra statsløse personer født i Danmark’, 7 March 2011, available at: https://bit.ly/2X10pGE. 315 In October 2010, the first Naturalization Bill was submitted to the Danish Parliament comprising a number of stateless applicants who did not fulfil the general naturalization requirements. 316 http://www.ft.dk/samling/20101/lovforslag/l38/index.htm. 317 http://www.ft.dk/samling/20101/lovforslag/L192/index.htm. 318 http://www.ft.dk/samling/20111/lovforslag/L11/index.htm. 319 http://www.ft.dk/samling/20111/lovforslag/L163/index.htm. 320 http://www.ft.dk/samling/20121/lovforslag/l42/index.htm. 321 http://www.ft.dk/samling/20121/lovforslag/l211/index.htm. 322 http://www.ft.dk/samling/20131/lovforslag/l53/index.htm. 323 http://www.ft.dk/samling/20131/lovforslag/l179/index.htm. 324 http://www.ft.dk/samling/20141/lovforslag/l45/index.htm. UNHCR Representation for the Nordic and Baltic Countries 75