For the fourth week in a row, the number of entry border crossings into Ukraine exceeds the number of exit border crossings: this week the difference between them amounted to 26 thousand, compared to 36 thousand a week ago and 21 thousand two weeks ago.
According to the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, published on Facebook, the number of exit crossings increased from 360 thousand last week to 362 thousand this week, while the number of entry crossings decreased from 396 thousand to 388 thousand.
The number of vehicles crossing the western border of Ukraine, according to the agency, in the 32nd week of the year also decreased – from 143 thousand to 141 thousand, as well as the number of processed vehicles with humanitarian goods – from 839 to 780.
The Polish Border Guard Service also recorded a slight decrease in the net inflow to Ukraine over the past seven days – to 18.8 thousand from 28.5 thousand last week and 16.5 thousand two weeks earlier.
According to the Polish Ministry, the number of those who entered Poland from Ukraine during the week decreased from 231.8 thousand to 230.2 thousand, while those traveling in the opposite direction decreased from 260.3 thousand to 249.0 thousand.
In general, since the beginning of the war, by August 11, 2023, 14.51 million people arrived in Poland from Ukraine, while 12.75 million people traveled in the opposite direction.
As 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, since the end of September, possibly under the influence of news about mobilization in Russia and “pseudo-referendums” in the occupied territories, and then massive shelling of energy infrastructure, an excess of the number of those leaving over those entering was recorded. It temporarily stopped in the second half of December – early January for the period of holidays, but then resumed again and in total since the end of September by the anniversary of the full-scale war reached 223 thousand people.
From that time until today, thanks to the statistics of the last four weeks, the number of border crossings to enter Ukraine has exceeded the number of crossings to leave Ukraine by 86 thousand.
As Deputy Minister of Economy Serhiy Sobolev noted in early March, the return of every 100 thousand Ukrainians home gives a 0.5% increase in GDP.
According to the UNHCR, the number of Ukrainian refugees in Europe as of August 8 was estimated at 5.882 million, and in the whole world – at 6.240 million, which is 9 thousand more than a week ago.
In Ukraine itself, according to the UN data as of the end of May, there were 5.088m internally displaced persons.
