As of February 2024, 4.2 million Ukrainians have been granted temporary protection in the EU since the start of the full-scale invasion.
This is reported by UNN with reference to Eurostat.
As of February 29, 2024, 4.2 million people from Ukraine enjoyed temporary protection status in the European Union.
The largest number of such people lived in Germany (1,286,580 people; 30.4% of the total in the EU), Poland (957,200; 22.6%) and the Czech Republic (385,075; 9.1%).
The largest absolute increase in the number of recipients of temporary protection since the end of January 2024 was observed in:
Germany (+16,430; +1.3%);
Poland (+5,640; +0.6%);
Czech Republic (+3,885; +1.0%).
At the same time, the number of recipients decreased in 5 EU countries.
These are: Austria (-1,420 people; -1.7%); France (-685; -1.1%); Estonia (-550; -1.5%); Netherlands (-120; -0.1%); Malta (-20; -1.0%).
As of the end of February 2024, the highest rates of the total number of temporary protection recipients per thousand people were observed in:
Czech Republic (35.6),
Lithuania (26.5);
Poland (26.0).
At the same time, the average number of recipients in the EU was 9.4 per thousand people.
On February 29, 2024, Ukrainian nationals accounted for over 98% of those granted temporary protection.Adult women accounted for almost half (46.0%) of the beneficiaries of temporary protection in the EU. Children accounted for almost a third (32.9%), while adult men accounted for just over a fifth (21.2%) of the total
Recall
Starting from September 1, 2024, all Ukrainian children living in Poland because of the war will be obliged to attend local schools with Ukrainian language classes and teachers from Ukraine.