On 30 April 2023, almost 4 million non-EU citizens who fled Ukraine as a consequence of the Russian invasion on 24 February 2022 were benefitting from temporary protection status in EU countries.
The main countries hosting beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine were Germany (1 090 235 people; 28% of the total), Poland (995 035; 25%) and Czechia (331 850; 8%).
Compared with the end of March 2023, the number of beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine increased across the EU (+51 010; +1.3%). The largest increases were observed in Germany (+22 480; +2%), Sweden (+8 640; +35%) and Czechia (+6 605; +2%). Sweden’s large increase was mainly because the process to renew temporary protection statuses, which finished in March 2023, was delayed. This made the number of registered beneficiaries of temporary protection at the end of March seem lower than it actually was.
On the other hand, four countries saw a decrease in the number of people benefitting from temporary protection: Poland (-4 700; -0.5%), Portugal (-2 520; -4%), Estonia (-1 885; -5%) and France (-985; -1%).
Data presented in this article refer to the grants of temporary protection 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 military invasion, and having the effect of introducing temporary protection.
Compared with the population of each EU member, the highest numbers of total temporary protection beneficiaries per thousand people in April 2023 were observed in Czechia (31.6), Poland and Estonia (both 26.4), Lithuania (24.5), Bulgaria (22.7) and Latvia (21.2), whereas the corresponding figure at the EU level was equal to 8.9.
By April 2023, Ukrainian citizens represented 98% of the beneficiaries of temporary protection. Adult women made up almost half (47%; majority aged 35-64) of temporary protection beneficiaries in the EU. Children accounted for slightly more than one third (35%), while adult men comprised less than a fifth (18%) of the total.
