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4.2 million people fled Ukraine: Eurostat update on temporary protection

Jun 10, 2024 ,

10 June 2024

On 30 April 2024, 4.2 million non-EU citizens, who fled Ukraine as a consequence of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine that began on 24 February 2022, had temporary protection status in the EU.

At the end of April 2024, among the EU countries that have voluntarily provided data, Poland had the highest number of beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine (953 930), followed by Czechia (345 405). April data for Germany is not available; at the end of March Germany had hosted 1 301 790 people. Spanish data for April were not available, either; at the end of March Spain had hosted 203 300 people.

Compared with the end of March 2024, based on available data, the number of beneficiaries increased in 19 EU countries. The largest absolute increases were observed in Romania (+3 275), Sweden (+1 855), Bulgaria (+1 780) and Slovakia (+ 1 250).

The number of beneficiaries decreased in 6 EU countries, with Czechia (-18 970) and the Netherlands (-8 415) registering the largest absolute decreases.

Data presented in this article refer to the attribution of temporary protection status based on the Council Implementing Decision 2022/382 of 4 March 2022, establishing the existence of a mass influx of displaced persons from Ukraine due to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, and having the effect of introducing temporary protection.

On 28 September 2023, the European Council agreed to extend the temporary protection for these people from 4 March 2024 to 4 March 2025 – source datasets: migr_asytpsm and migr_asytpspop

Compared with the population of each EU country, the highest numbers of total temporary protection beneficiaries per thousand people at the end of April 2024 were observed in Czechia (31.9), Lithuania (27.0) and Poland (26.0), whereas the corresponding figure at the EU level was 9.4 per thousand people.

On 30 April 2024, Ukrainian citizens represented over 98% of the beneficiaries of temporary protection. Adult women made up almost half (45.7%) of temporary protection beneficiaries in the EU. Children accounted for almost one-third (32.8%), while adult men comprised slightly more than a fifth (21.5%) of the total.

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Methodological notes
  • Data for Germany is not available. At the end of March Germany had hosted 1 301 790 people.
  • Data for Spain is not available. At the end of March Spain had hosted 203 300 people.
  • EU total number of persons under temporary protection at the end of April 2024 is calculated with data at the end of March 2024 for Germany and Spain.
  • France: in most cases, minors can stay in France without a permit. Therefore, minors fleeing the war in Ukraine and seeking protection in France are generally not included in statistics on temporary protection.
  • Hungary: data on temporary protection broken down by age group are not available.
  • Structures of beneficiaries by age and sex have been calculated based on available data while disregarding the unknown category.
  • Temporary protection is a procedure provided only in the event of a mass influx or imminent mass influx of displaced persons from third countries who are unable to return to their country of origin. These people are granted immediate and temporary protection, particularly if there is also a risk that the asylum system will be unable to process the influx without adverse effects for its efficient operation, in the interests of the persons concerned and other persons requesting protection.
  • Data presented in this article refer to the granting of temporary protection and not to the registrations for temporary protection, which may precede the process of granting the status. Therefore, the data may not present all persons fleeing Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and who have registered but not yet formally received temporary protection.

Source – Eurostat

 

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