10 most populous nations that don’t have birthright citizenship: list
9. Egypt
A North African nation with more than 120 million people that appears frequently in the Old Testament, the Arab Republic of Egypt does not grant automatic citizenship to people born there.
According to Law No. 26 of 1975, Egypt identifies as citizens those “born of Egyptian fathers,” those “born in Egypt of an Egyptian mother, and a father whose nationality is unknown or who is stateless,” or those “born in Egypt of unknown parents.”
Additionally, someone can be considered Egyptian by birth if born abroad, provided that “of an Egyptian mother, and of an unknown father, or a stateless father, or a father whose nationality is unknown, if he [chooses] the Egyptian nationality, within one year from the date he comes of age.”
The law goes out of its way to clarify that “Zionists shall not benefit by any of the provisions of the present article” and allows a governing body to strip a person of Egyptian nationality “If at any time he has been qualified as zionist.”
