As of November 30, 2024, 4 million 234.49 thousand non-EU citizens who left Ukraine as a result of the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022, had the status of temporary protection in the EU, which is 36.01 thousand, or 0.9%, more than a month earlier, Eurostat reports.
“The largest absolute increase in the number of beneficiaries was observed in Germany (+11,915; +1.0%), the Czech Republic (+5,820; +1.5%) and Poland (+4,045; +0.4%),” the agency said.
It is noted that the number of people under temporary protection in November decreased only in Italy (-1,270; -0.8%), France (-695; -1.2%) and Luxembourg (-15; -0.4%).
According to Eurostat, Germany remains the country with the largest number of refugees from Ukraine in the EU and the world by a growing margin – 1 million 152.62 thousand at the end of November, or 27.2% of the total number of beneficiaries in the EU.
The top three also includes Poland – 987.93 thousand, or 23.3%, and the Czech Republic – 385.19 thousand, or 9.1%.
Spain (224.29 thousand), Romania (177.61 thousand), and Italy (164.41 thousand) follow with a significant lag.
At the same time, Eurostat clarified that the data for Spain, Greece and Cyprus take into account some people whose temporary protection status is no longer valid.
According to the agency, compared to the population of each EU member state, the largest number of temporary protection beneficiaries per thousand people in November 2024 was observed in the Czech Republic (35.3), Poland (27.0), Latvia and Estonia (25.5 each), while the corresponding figure at the EU level is 9.4.
It is also reported that as of November 30, 2024, Ukrainian citizens accounted for more than 98.3% of the beneficiaries of temporary protection. Adult women accounted for almost half (44.9%) of temporary protection beneficiaries in the EU, children for almost a third (32.0%), while adult men accounted for less than a quarter (23.1%) of the total. A year earlier, the share of women was 46.3%, children 33.3% and adult men 20.4%.
More than 100 thousand people with temporary protection status at the end of November 2024 were also in Slovakia – 130.47 thousand, the Netherlands – 120.55 thousand and Ireland – 109.18 thousand.
Between 50 thousand and 100 thousand of them were in Belgium – 85.44 thousand, Austria – 84.60 thousand, Norway – 78.10 thousand, Finland – 68.78 thousand, Bulgaria – 67.54 thousand, Switzerland – 67.45 thousand, Portugal – 64.78 thousand and France – 59.13 thousand (data on children are mostly not included – Eurostat).
This is followed by Lithuania – 48.01 thousand, Latvia – 47.65 thousand, Sweden – 46.00 thousand, Denmark – 38.92 thousand, Hungary – 38.89 thousand, Greece – 32.37 thousand, Estonia – 35.12 thousand, Croatia – 25.81 thousand, Cyprus – 22.09 thousand, Iceland – 3.97 thousand, Luxembourg – 3.84 thousand, Malta – 2.20 thousand and Liechtenstein – 0.70 thousand.
Eurostat clarified that all the above data relate to the granting of temporary protection on the basis of EU Council Decision 2022/382 of March 4, 2022, which establishes the existence of a massive influx of displaced persons from Ukraine due to Russia’s military invasion and entails the introduction of temporary protection. On June 25, 2024, the European Council decided to extend temporary protection for these persons from March 4, 2025 to March 4, 2026.
According to updated UNHCR data, the number of Ukrainian refugees in Europe as of January 16, 2025, was estimated at 6.303 million, and 6.863 million worldwide, which is 49 thousand more than as of December 16.
In Ukraine itself, according to the latest UN data, there are 3.6 million internally displaced persons (IDPs), while approximately 160,000 people were displaced from the frontline areas in the east and south between May and October 2024 due to the intensification of hostilities.
As Deputy Minister of Economy Serhiy Sobolev noted in early March 2023, the return of every 100,000 Ukrainians home results in a 0.5% increase in GDP. At the same time, in its October inflation report, the National Bank again downgraded its forecast for the outflow from Ukraine in 2024 from 0.4 million to 0.5 million. At the same time, the outflow estimate for 2025 was lowered from 0.3 million to 0.2 million.
In the report, the National Bank confirmed its expectation that Ukrainians will start returning home in 2026, but lowered its net inflow forecast to 0.2 million from 0.4 million.
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