On 31 October 2023, 4.24 million non-EU citizens who fled Ukraine as a consequence of the Russian invasion on 24 February 2022, had temporary protection status in EU countries.
The main EU countries hosting beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine were Germany (1 215 365 people; 28.7% of the total), Poland (960 620; 22.7%) and Czechia (364 450; 8.6%).
Compared with the end of September 2023, the number of beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine in the EU increased in all EU countries, except for Denmark, where it decreased by 4.5% (-1 700 people). The largest absolute increases were observed in Germany (+20 465; +1.7%), Czechia (+6 490; +1.8%), and the Netherlands (+4 005; +3.0%).
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 Russia’s 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 protectionfor people fleeing from Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine from 4 March 2024 to 4 March 2025.
Compared with the population of each EU country, the highest numbers of total temporary protection beneficiaries per thousand people at the end of October 2023 were observed in Czechia (33.7), Estonia (26.3), Poland and Bulgaria (both 26.1) and Lithuania (25.8), whereas the corresponding figure at the EU level was 9.5 per thousand people.
On 31 October 2023, Ukrainian citizens represented over 98% of the beneficiaries of temporary protection. Adult women made up almost half (46.4%) of temporary protection beneficiaries in the EU. Children accounted for almost one-third (33.4%), while adult men comprised slightly more than a fifth (20.2%) of the total.
