As of July 20, 2022, the number of refugees from Ukraine registered for temporary protection or similar national protection schemes in Europe was 3,709.33 thousand, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported on your site.
In the three weeks since June 29, the growth amounted to about 135 thousand, while in the previous two weeks – 170 thousand, and since the end of May – about 775 thousand.
Poland (about 40 thousand), Czech Republic (about 13.5 thousand), Great Britain (about 13 thousand) and Italy (about 11 thousand) showed the largest increase.
According to UNHCR data collected from national governments, the largest number of refugees with temporary protection status in Poland is 1 million 234.7 thousand, while 4.968 million people arrived in the country from Ukraine, according to the Polish border service, from the beginning of the war to , and in the opposite direction departed to Ukraine 3.045 million.
Following are Germany and the Czech Republic, where the number of refugees registered for temporary protection from Ukraine amounted to 670 thousand respectively (the data does not change from June 21) and 396.18 thousand.
The UN, referring to government data, indicates that in total in Germany, where Ukrainians are allowed to stay without registration until the end of August, 893 thousand refugees from Ukraine were recorded. Based on the data presented, a significant proportion of them have not yet applied for temporary protection status in that country.
In the Czech Republic, the situation, according to UN information, is different: almost all arrivals applied for protection status – 396.18 thousand out of 396.33 thousand.
In the vast majority of other countries, the picture is similar to the Czech Republic: the statistics of registered refugees is completely or almost equal to the statistics of those who applied for protection status, which is probably due to the peculiarity of their registration and the completion of the 90-day period of stay under the visa-free regime. An exception, similar to Germany, is only Romania – 45.53 thousand with the status of 84.53 thousand refugees recorded in the country and Estonia – 30.29 thousand out of 46.73 thousand.
Italy is still in fourth place in terms of the number of registered refugees from Ukraine – 143.13 thousand, and Spain closes the top five, in which the number of registered refugees increased by 5 thousand in three weeks, to 128.89 thousand.
Bulgaria follows with an indicator of 123.36 thousand, the only one in which the number of registered with the status of temporary protection is much higher than the number of registered refugees from Ukraine – 86.58 thousand.
More than 50 thousand refugees from Ukraine with the status of temporary protection are also in the UK – 99.7 thousand, France (data as of July 4) – 92.16 thousand (an increase of 4.2 thousand), Slovakia – 85.77 thousand (growth by more than 6 thousand).
Among these countries are also Austria – 76.21 thousand, the Netherlands (data as of July 5) – 68.05 thousand, Lithuania – 59.47 thousand, Switzerland – 57.02 thousand and Belgium – 51.12 thousand.
Following are Portugal – 47.75 thousand, Ireland – 44.58 thousand (an increase of 4.2 thousand), Belgium – 48.38 thousand, Sweden – 40.45 thousand, Latvia – 35.80 thousand. , Finland – 32.67 thousand, Denmark – 29.83 thousand and Hungary – 26.93 thousand, as well as the above-mentioned Romania and Estonia.
From 10 to 25 thousand refugees from Ukraine with the status of temporary protection in Norway – 21.06 thousand, Greece – 16.80 thousand, Croatia – 16.09 thousand and Cyprus – 14.37 thousand.
The UN also indicated the countries in which refugees from Ukraine were recorded, but there is no data on their status: Turkey (data as of May 19) – 145 thousand, Moldova – 86.24 thousand, Georgia – 23.11 thousand, Azerbaijan – 4.80 thousand, Albania – 2.50 thousand, North Macedonia – 1.64 thousand, Armenia – 0.49 thousand and Bosnia and Herzegovina – 0.30 thousand. Separately, it is worth specifying Russia and Belarus, the Ukrainian border with which, respectively, 1 million 745.80 thousand and 16.68 thousand people crossed. The UN information indicates that in the Russian Federation all those who crossed the border were recorded, while in Belarus – 10.35 thousand. There is no data on obtaining the status by them, as well as data on crossing the border of Ukraine in the opposite direction.
In total, according to the UN as of July 19, 9.567 million people left Ukraine since the beginning of the war, while 3.793 million returned (without data from Hungary, the Russian Federation and Belarus). According to this information, the total number of refugees since the beginning of the war can be estimated at about 5 4-5.5 million people, including about 1.75 million people to Russia.
“Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, almost a third of Ukrainians have been forced to flee their homes. This is the largest displacement crisis in the world to date. In Ukraine, more than 6.3 million people remain displaced by the war,” UNHCR points out, although an estimate three weeks ago internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Ukraine was higher – 7.1 million.
