The net inflow to Ukraine during the week of April 8-14 decreased from a record 97 thousand people a week earlier to 56 thousand, which is also very high and can be explained by the Easter holidays.
According to the State Border Service on Facebook, the flow to leave Ukraine during that week slightly increased – from 241 thousand to 246 thousand people, while the flow to enter decreased from 338 thousand to 302 thousand people.
The number of cars crossing the western Ukrainian border, according to the department, in the 15th week of the year decreased from 132 thousand to 123 thousand, and the number of vehicles with humanitarian cargoes, from 522 to 459.
The biggest net inflow to Ukraine – more than 10 thousand people per day – was fixed on Friday and at week-ends.
Polish State Border Service also recorded a decrease in the net inflow to Ukraine for the last seven days – 49.4 thousand people compared to 87.7 thousand a week earlier.
According to the Polish Ministry, the weekly flow from Ukraine to Poland increased from 155.3 thousand people to 157.3 thousand, whereas the return flow from Poland to Ukraine decreased from 243 thousand people to 206.7 thousand.
All in all, from the beginning of the war to April 14, 2023, 11,107 million people arrived in Poland from Ukraine, whereas 9,375 million people went in the opposite direction.
As it was reported, since May 10, 2022, the outflow of refugees from Ukraine was replaced by an inflow, which lasted until September 23 and amounted to 409 thousand people.
However, during the last week of September, the net outflow was 28 thousand people at once, and one of the possible reasons was a reaction to mobilization in Russia and “pseudo-referendums” in the occupied territories, and then the probable reason for the continued net outflow was the massive shelling of energy infrastructure. It temporarily stopped in the second half of December and early January for the period of holidays, but from the second week of January it resumed again and cumulatively reached 223 thousand people by the anniversary of the full-scale war since late September.
However, since that moment 186 thousand more people entered Ukraine than left.
As Deputy Economy Minister Sergei Sobolev noted in early March, the return of every 100,000 Ukrainians home gives a 0.5% increase in GDP.
According to UNHCR data as of April 11, a total of 20.42 million people left Ukraine since the war began (not including the flow of people into the country), of which 10.75 million left for Poland, 2.85 million for Russia (data as of October 3), 2.49 million for Hungary, 2.21 million for Romania, 1.30 million for Slovakia, 0.80 million for Moldova and 0.02 million for Belarus.
At the same time, according to the UN, from February 28, 2022 to April 11, 2023, 11.89 million people arrived in Ukraine (excluding the data of Hungary, Russia and Belarus).
The number of Ukrainians registered in Europe with temporary protection status or similar reached 5.038 million on April 11, increasing by 11 thousand during the week.
