Eurostat: 4.1 million people who fled Ukraine were under temporary protection in EU in July 2024
As of July 31 2024, slightly more than 4.1 million non-EU citizens, who fled Ukraine as a consequence of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, had temporary protection status in the EU, Eurostat said on September 10.
The EU countries hosting the highest number of beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine at the end of July 2024 were Germany (1 110 600 people; 26.9 per cent of the EU total), Poland (976 205; 23.7 per cent) and Czechia (369 610; 9.0 per cent).
Compared with the end of June 2024, the largest absolute increases in the number of beneficiaries were observed in Poland (+10 430; +1.1 per cent), Czechia (+8834; +2.4 per cent) and Romania (+4250; +2.6 per cent).
The number of beneficiaries decreased in Luxembourg (-470; -11.0 per cent) and France (-470; -0.8 per cent).
Starting in July 2024, Germany removed from the reported stock of people under temporary protection all individuals whose temporary protection status was no longer valid because either they have been granted with another protection status or definitely left the German territory.
In comparison with the end of June 2024, this led to a significant decrease in the number of people under temporary protection reported by Germany, with a reduction of 236,925 people (-17.6 per cent).
Compared with the population of each EU country, the highest ratio of temporary protection beneficiaries per thousand people at the end of July 2024 were observed in Czechia (33.9), Lithuania (27.4) and Poland (26.7), whereas the corresponding figure at the EU level was 9.2 per thousand people.
On 31 July 2024, Ukrainian citizens represented over 98 per cent of the beneficiaries of temporary protection.
Adult women made up almost half (45.3 per cent) of the temporary protection beneficiaries in the EU. Children accounted for almost one-third (32.4 per cent), while adult men comprised slightly more than a fifth (22.4 per cent) of the total.
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 the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, and introducing temporary protection.
On June 25 2024, the European Council adopted the decision to extend the temporary protection for these people from March 4 2025 to March 4 2026.
(Archive photo from March 2022: UNHCR/ Chris Melzer)
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