4.3 million under temporary protection in December 2024

On 31 December 2024, nearly 4.3 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. 

The EU countries hosting the highest number of beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine were Germany (1 161 450 people; 27.3% of the EU total), Poland (991 630; 23.3%) and Czechia (388 625; 9.1%).

Compared with the end of November 2024, the total number of persons under temporary protection in the EU at the end of December increased by 25 590 (+0.6%). The largest absolute increases in the number of beneficiaries were observed in Germany (+8 830; +0.8%), Poland (+3 705; +0.4%) and Czechia (+3 435; +0.9%). The number of people under temporary protection decreased only in Denmark (-1 995; -5.1%), Italy (-1 310; -0.8%) and France (-595; -1.0%).

Source datasets: migr_asytpsm and migr_asytpspop

Compared with the population of each EU country, the highest ratio of temporary protection beneficiaries per thousand people were observed in Czechia (35.7), Poland (27.1) and Estonia (25.8) whereas the corresponding figure at the EU level was 9.5 per thousand people.

On 31 December 2024, Ukrainian citizens represented over 98.3% of the beneficiaries of temporary protection in the EU. Adult women made up almost half (44.8%) of the beneficiaries. Children accounted for almost one-third (31.9%), while adult men comprised less than a quarter (23.2%) 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 25 June 2024, the European Council adopted the decision to extend the temporary protection for these people from 4 March 2025 to 4 March 2026.