4.3 million under temporary protection in January 2025

On 31 January 2025, almost 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 (1 170 250 people; 27.3% of the EU total), Poland (993 015; 23.2%) and Czechia (394 985; 9.2%).

Compared with the end of December 2024, the total number of persons under temporary protection in the EU at the end of January increased by 25 530 (+0.6%). The largest absolute increases in the number of beneficiaries were observed in Germany (+8 800; +0.8%), Czechia (+6 360; +1.6%) and Spain (+3 050; +1.3%). The number of people under temporary protection decreased only in Denmark (-2 245; -6.1%), France (-660; -1.1%), Austria (-420; -0.5%) and Lithuania (-155; -0.3%).
 

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 (36.2), Poland (27.1) and Estonia (26.0) whereas the corresponding figure at the EU level was 9.5 per thousand people.

On 31 January 2025, Ukrainian citizens represented over 98.4% 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 (31.8%), while adult men comprised less than a quarter (23.4%) 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.