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Asylum applications in December 2025
Temporary protection for 4.38 million in January 2026
On 31 January 2026, a total of 4.38 million non-EU citizens who fled Ukraine had temporary protection status in the EU. Compared with the end of December 2025, the total number of people from Ukraine under temporary protection increased by 23 110 (+0.5%).
The EU countries hosting the highest number of beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine were Germany (1 260 230 people; 28.8% of the EU total), Poland (965 990; 22.1%) and Czechia (397 185; 9.1%).
Among EU countries, the number of people under temporary protection increased in 23 countries, with the 3 largest absolute increases observed in Germany (+9 610; +0.8%), Czechia (+4 130; +1.1%) and Spain (+2 560; +1.0%). Among the 4 EU countries that registered decreases, the highest decreases were observed in Poland (-3 250; -0.3%) and Cyprus (-1 235; -4.8%).
Source datasets: migr_asytpsm and migr_asytpspop
The highest ratios of temporary protection beneficiaries per thousand people were observed in Czechia (36.4), Poland (26.5) and Slovakia (25.8), whereas the corresponding figure at the EU level was 9.7 per thousand people.
On 31 January 2026, Ukrainian citizens represented over 98.4% of the beneficiaries of temporary protection in the EU. Adult women made up 43.5% of the beneficiaries. Minors accounted for almost one third (30.3%), while adult men comprised slightly more than a quarter (26.1%) 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 13 June 2025, the European Council adopted the decision to extend the temporary protection for these people from 4 March 2026 to 4 March 2027.
For more information
- Statistics Explained on temporary protection for persons fleeing Ukraine
- Thematic section on the impact of the war in Ukraine
- Thematic section on migration and asylum
- Database on asylum statistics
- Migration and asylum in Europe – 2025 edition
Methodological notes
- Structures of beneficiaries by age and sex have been calculated based on available data, while disregarding the unknown category.
- Temporary protection is a procedure provided only in the event of a mass influx or imminent mass influx of displaced persons from third countries who are unable to return to their country of origin. These people are granted immediate and temporary protection, particularly if there is also a risk that the asylum system will be unable to process the influx without adverse effects for its efficient operation, in the interests of the people concerned and other people requesting protection.
- Deregistration procedure of people under temporary protection varies across countries and can result in large month-to-month decreases in the number of registered beneficiaries if not implemented on a continuous basis.
- Where relevant, data might not add up to 100% due to rounding.
Country notes
- France: data do not generally include minors.
- Spain, Cyprus and Greece: data on the number of people under temporary protection at the end of the month include some whose temporary protection status was no longer valid.
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