As of 30 November 2023, 4.27 million non-EU nationals who left Ukraine at the outbreak of war on 24 February 2022 had temporary protection status in EU countries, Eurostat reports.
Germany (1,235,960; 28.9% of the EU total), Poland (955,110; 22.3%) and the Czech Republic (369,330; 8.6%) were the main EU countries that received the largest number of temporary protection beneficiaries from Ukraine.
Compared to end-October 2023, Germany (+20,595; +1.7%), the Czech Republic (+4,880; +1.3%) and Norway (+4,180; +6.9%) had the largest absolute increase in the number of beneficiaries.
Among all EU countries, the number of beneficiaries decreased slightly in four countries, Poland (-5,510; -0.6 per cent), Italy (-160; -0.1 per cent), France (-125; -0.2 per cent) and Luxembourg (-15; -0.4 per cent).
The data presented in this article refer to the granting of temporary protection status on the basis of Council Executive Decision 2022/382 of 4 March 2022 establishing the existence of a massive influx of displaced people from Ukraine due to the war in Ukraine and entailing the imposition of temporary protection. On 28 September 2023, the European Council agreed to extend temporary protection for people fleeing the war in Ukraine from 4 March 2024 to 4 March 2025.
On 30 November 2023, Ukrainians accounted for more than 98% of temporary protection beneficiaries. Adult women accounted for almost half (46.3%) of temporary protection beneficiaries in the EU. Children accounted for almost one third (33.3%) and adult men for just over one fifth (20.4%) of the total.
